Extension for General Kayani (II)

RAWALAKOT: Pakistan is a poor country where getting a government job is next to impossible for a person who does not have sources in echelons of power. Giving the extension to the army chief for three more years means that you have deprived the person who was supposed to replace him.

And secondly it is obvious that no one in the army is capable of replacing him. If so, why we are spending millions of rupees to prepare an officer in  the army?

On one hand we are against military dictatorships in Pakistan, but on the other we are requesting the army chief to accept this extension for the sake of this country. I suspect this extension will eat the fragile fruit of democracy in Pakistan because we are telling the army chief that without him we cannot control the menace of terrorism.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 25^th, 2010.