Sir just having conversation with my friend in Pakistan he told me if Gen. Haroon Islam was selected operation zarb e azb and TTP long back finished, he (Haroon Islam) swiftly finish Swat operation by using acute brute force. Want to have your opinion.
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Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif. PHOTO: FILE
The Pakistan Army on Monday rubbished reports that the army chief would seek to extend his tenure from three to four years.
“Speculations about extension in service of COAS are baseless,” the ISPR Director General Lt-General Asim Saleem Bajwa said in a Twitter message.
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While quoting the army chief, ISPR said national interest is supreme and will be safe guarded at all costs.
Earlier, the federal government has dropped the clearest hint yet that it is ready to back a proposal to extend the tenure of chief of the army staff’s office from three to four years.
Sources close to the prime minister’s office said, on the condition of anonymity, that the proposal was informally floated with the top military office. But the incumbent of the office suggested that the government should reconsider the proposal and implement it from the tenure of the next chief of the army staff, who will take charge in November 2016.
Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, they claim, effectively communicated to the federal government that he may not be interested in any extension in his office tenure. There has been a lot of media speculation round this particular question.
The idea of extension in tenures is a continuation of former military General Pervez Musharraf who gave extensions to himself from 2001 to 2008 and then General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani who was given extensions in his normal tenure and he ended up serving in the role for six years.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1033791...n-and-will-retire-on-the-due-date-army-chief/
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I honestly don't know. I hope he gets into politics.
Haroon Islam? Do you by any chance mean Gen Zaheer ul Islam (ex ISI chief)? Lt Col Haroon Islam (SSG) was martyred in Lal Masjid Operation. There is also Gen Muhammad Haroon Aslam of the SSG.
I don't think Raheel Sharif would have been appointed earlier had Kiyani not received an extension. Kiyani's extension resulted in various senior Army officers retiring - Raheel Sharif would have been much lower (junior) in the ranks and unlikely to be picked.
This is an example of placing too much emphasis on personality rather than the institution. Gen. Haroon Aslam played a critical role in the Swat operations, but as an institution, the Army would have analyzed and absorbed the strategy, tactics and lessons learned from those operations (and others) - they didn't just die out with Gen. Haroon Aslam's retirement.
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