yes my father served in FF while we r Kashmiris from AJK. Gen Raheel Sharif is a punjabi rajput but served in FF. And ur dear friend Irfan Baloch is an example too Who is a Balochi but served in -- regiment.
. I even agree with him to some extent but perhaps the timing of his statement is not really suitable, I mean a few weeks ago we were discussing the failed coup attempt in Turkey. That does not mean Turkey does not have a powerful, well trained and a professional army but it showed a big rift within its rank which is a serious thing. Pak army has faced multiple issues and situations and I know opinion were divided on certain issues like in the initial phase of war on terror etc but it never amounted to cause a major rift in its ranks. An army is all about its discipline...more than the weapons and training.
He must be Talking about " Northern Light Infantry". and it's a fact if you would visit a specific region or province you would surely see most people of that same Region like General is talking about Northern Region. So what if the Army men is from North or south Region the important thing is he is "Pakistani" and he is well Trained and well Equipped. i would consider it as Stupid Argument "Sorry".
@Arsalan @Irfan Baloch i guess the possible explanation could be that as of now especially in past 10 years we have made turks train with our most battle hardened forces which r these days obviously our forces from north like AJK regiment, NLI, FC, FF etc.......Just to give u an example that the last exercise with turks was in G-B in high altitude warfare front with NLI.
Pakistani nation as a whole is a nation built around a political two nations theory, once the theory started to sound obsolete in post Pakistan's creation, the theory was revigorized by introducing India as the key rival to this two nations theory. This ideological hardening picked up in 80s when a more radical version of the same theory was applied on Russia to make use of Jihadi resources deployed in Afghanistan. Army, being closely allied to the theory professes her as not only the defender of geographical but also ideological boundries of Pakistan. Pakistan's ethnic diversity needed to be bounded somehow. Its just like you try to make a Merc work by using parts of ford, fiat, volksvagon and toyota. Pakistan needed some recipe which would make such arrangements work and the recipie chosen was that of Religion as nationalism. So Pakistan army turned into "Pak army". Pakistan's dynamics have been driven by religion so much that the national identity has been dependent upon the religious identity of the folks. By the virtue of ethnic diversity, Pakistan can not have a national army like Turky,Germany,France etc because racial homogenization is impossible to achieve which would give way to nationalistic identity so the only alternative albeit a risky one is the use of religious identity to achieve this harmony.
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I don't understand please rephrase...
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What has this got to do with the Army???
Na dear the explanation is the same as given earlier. He is mixing some other groups with army. Plus it may also be a case that he saw those FC and NLI troops more often and thus this assumption. Again, that is like comparing these groups with the main army units and there composition.
