How is it a silly notion?
It's silly as it just a contentment of heart that im not saying anything regarding soldiers, I am just pointing out the top brass. The majority of Army is made up of soldiers. Every formation has 60-85% soldiers, whether field or intelligence or staff. 95% of the activities are carried out by soldiers even in ISI and MI. On PDF, its the Army, the military that gets targeted by members. The two just cannot be separated. Top brass are just a few, they just give instructions, its the junior officers and soldiers who carry out all the tasks.
So saying that top brass gave certain order, which was carried out by soldiers - therefore top brass is to be blamed, but its the soldiers who are supposed to carry out orders. Military is a single functioning entity. Top brass and soldiers are not separate. You should have known better than that Top brass mingles with troops and not just at bara khana but Ops briefing too. The soldiers are told what and why they are going to carry out a specific task or order. If however, 3-star cannot do that then 1-star or CO does this after briefed by the 3-star officer. There is no alienation. Younger officers who stay with soldiers in early of their career get accustomed to spend time with soldiers as they reach higher ranks. That is seen from officers to soldier martyrdom ratio. So yeah if you understand Pakistan Military then yes its a silly notion, otherwise soldiers wont be carrying out orders from top brass and the military would have been in disarray and mutinies would have risen in all formations.
I criticize the Pakistani government which takes absolutely moronic decisions.
Do it your heats content, but even in GOP, the top , mid and juniors, all know what is going on and all comply with it. Take burecracy or a certain department.
Does that mean I also criticize the Grade 2 sweeper or the Grade 5 peon?
The bribe starts from here, lowest tier is approached first. Its the peons who make things happen, especially in a civil departments case, say to approach a judge for some favor, the path starts from peon. That is the system in Pakistan to get things done, illegal ones especially. Money is not put directly into hands of 1st tier officials. Furthermore, the whole chain gets commission or share.
For how long will the institutions in our country keep on hiding behind this argument of 'Morale kharab hota hai to criticize mat karo'?
In military, human psyche is very important. Troops can be termed as robots, but they are not robots and every officer knows that whether he has 10 troops under him in staff HQ or 1000 in a field formation. Morale is a sensitive factor in military, without effective pep-talk, mission briefing, task insight etc, troops might not even fire a bullet. This is the reason behind creating a holding area or briefing area before the start of an ops. This is why slogans are necessary. To align the mind of the soldier with the task he needs to perform. Anyways, its a long topic and I cant let my weekend slip away on PDF.
Self accountability is already zero, public accountability ko bhi band kar do.
You remember why I blame the nation that every officer, whether civil or military, is from the public. Public doesn't believe in self accountability.
A small example, a chingchi (or qinqhi) hits your car while you are stuck in a traffic jam, before you even get out of ca, he turns and flees into a nearby street while he has no registration plate on him. No accountability. This is the lowest tier in public, a young boy of 16 years driving around public.
Anyways, carry on with your arguments coz you will never listen and only time will tell you. I have much to do in my personal life that cant be spent writing long posts on PDF. PA lost 14 soldiers, somebody is accountable, I hope we get to know that he is removed from command.
Every Pakistani is like that to be honest, in a way we kinda deserve the rulers that have been thrust upon us, these generals did not come from some allien world they rose from the very people, just like these think tank guys on this thread, I mean why kill the goose when she is laying golden eggs, we can kill her later and go for the meat and bones after we run her dry.
My point exactly.
