truthseeker2010
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Yeah I’ve seen your posts for a while. You do add a lot of knowledge and perspective to this discussion.
I try to mostly stay away from Pakistani internal affairs as they’re none of my damn business, mostly.
However, this subject and discussion- the military’s evolving role in Pakistani society - interests me from an intellectual standpoint, and I’m jumping in feet first
I don’t think that the strategy of going after generals or officers after they retire is a feasible one. It reeks too much of a witch hunt, plus no serving officer will support it, because they know it will be their turn to be thus targeted in a few years. It won’t happen.
What PA needs to understand- as a core principle and institutional memory (that is, systemic knowledge as opposed to just a few officers who get it) - is that the more the armed forces engages with the public, the less respect it gets. Period. And conversely the less PA comes out in the open, the more powerful it will get.
What’s the difference between the police and the army in today’s India? Why is the army respected (in most parts of the nation) and the police feared / hated / looked at with contempt everywhere? The answer is that one institution rarely interacts with the public, the other by nature is public facing.
In fact I’d argue that the typical class one police office in India (IPS or Indian Police Service) is far more educated, academically qualified and with a greater maturity than the army officer. But the IA officer is given huge natural respect and affection, while the IPS officer is feared and sometimes hated.
As soon as PA really gets this lesson and implements it by fading into the background, it will recover its preeminent position in Pakistani society. It just needs to get subtler.
Let the politicians, police and bureaucrats earn the abuses and gaalis. PA should bask in the background.
The other route - more and more public exposure and overt decision making - will make it worse for PA.
I’ll also say this - mark my words. The best thing for PA is that they allow IK to be PM, give him all the rope he wants.
I admire IK, but in six months in power everyone will be abusing him - because that’s what happens to politicians everywhere. In a year many Pakistanis will be saying that perhaps the PA wasnt as bad as they thought. This is how politics works, and PA is failing to understand the new ground realities.
For starters PA (the products of kakul) is an outsider. All the products are made that way. But now every commoner knows this well.(Thanks to social media). They very well know this. And that's what hurting their egos. They want to rule with iron fist as they consider themselves gods. And will go to every extent to do it. They have already broke up the country in 71 and now they have broken up financially. The things u mentioned applies to professional militaries not the khaki creatures. They are a different breed.
