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I see no flouting of any ‘laws’ - please stop your tantrum over a thread title that accurately conveys the gist of IK’s comments and focus on constructive discourse and engagement. The fact that you are spending this much energy on arguing about thread titles instead of the arrests, torture...

Anyone can ‘demand’ something - whether the demands are accepted or not is a different question. So the more accurate statement would be that ‘IK may not be in a position to get his demands (for an end to the Army’s fascist policies of arrests, torture, murder and a media crackdown on the PTI)...

Read all of his tweets on this issue (linked in the OP). He specifically wrote “fascist actions against the PTI in the last 8 months under Bajwa’ There is a forum to bring up your nitpicking about ‘titles and forum rules’, and the discussion threads are not it.

Transported via government airplane - provincial governments don’t control airspace to force down flights.

What exactly would you like him to do?

Even if the new COAS did not want to change personnel, a change in policies such as an end to unnecessary & frivolous cases, arrests and torture of PTI leaders and supporters over their right to exercise free speech would have sent a strong message that the Army as an institution was changing...

Former prime minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that he had hoped the new military leadership would have “immediately disassociated” itself from the eight months of the previous army chief’s “action against the PTI” as he criticised the arrest of party Senator Azam Swati. Swati was arrested...

I completely agree that a public apology will not be enough and I should have been more clear - a public apology will be the start. Successful Civilian led reforms along the lines of what you have mentioned will be the true test of whether the Army will genuinely accept its role as an...

Because the constitution gives the Prime Minister that authority, as is the case with the US President appointing people to run the CIA, NSA etc. Of course this is something Army fanboys (and I used to be one), justifying all the treason and constitutional violations perpetrated by the Army...

I complete agree. The Army leadership has engaged in constitutional violations, blackmail, extortion and manipulation of the judiciary, law enforcement, media and politicians for decades, and every so often a 'new leadership' bathes in the Ganga and proclaims that NOW the Army will abide by...

The Khaki clad bureaucrats running the Army have been manipulating, extorting and grabbing this 'space' (along with many others) on their own for decades - Ayub Khan against Fatima Jinnah, Yahya during the 1971 debacle, Zia against Bhutto, Musharraf against Nawaz and Bajwa against Imran Khan...

Nothing wrong with a general running the ISPR, but he needs to function as a manager to help the organization evolve and leave the press conferences etc to lower level spokespersons who can articulate the necessary message properly. All of that aside, the most important thing to remember for...

‘Soft or hard handling’ - meddling/manipulating politicians/politics by the Army constitutes a violation of the constitution and treason by the Bureaucrats in Khaki running the Army. Thanks for pointing this out and warning issued for supporting constitutional violations and treason by the...

Mercenaries for hire

That needs to happen WITHOUT the PTI leadership calling for it.

See my previous post and understand that no one is going to win a violent standoff against the Army, Rangers and police. The TTP tried and even that was beaten back. So unless you want to turn vast parts of Pakistan into Waziristan and carry out a war of attrition to wear down the Army, what...

The Yanks and Brits will step in. Under Biden even the Democrats had no issue demanding an unconstitutional overthrow of an elected government and have looked the otherway as the Pakistan Army carries out a media crackdown, arrests, torture and atrocities on its own people, all so the US can...

Anything from the US yet?

The consequence of the Army leadership surrounding itself with yes men and threatening (career or otherwise) anyone willing to speak up perhaps? Musharraf genuinely believed the BS fed to him about his popularity till the end after all.

The nation/public can and needs to exercise certain options that the PTI leadership cannot - the difference between a public uprising vs what will certainly be labeled sedition.