Its not even the rants. It is the outright personal, abusive nonsense (Case in point PradoTLC's despicable post above) that has rendered this forum a political soapbox for PTI from which they can attack, abuse and pontificate to anyone disagreeing with them.
Those that have contrarian views from the PTI are NOT attacking you personally here. Keep your posts civil.
There is a time and place that calls for the lack of civility --- for example, in the face of oppression and tyranny, no matter how subtle (or not) it may be.
Specifics have ceased to matter. Anybody who cares for Pakistan, PTI supporter or not, cannot and will not stand for an institution that is
de facto above the law, can engineer political outcomes, has a vast intelligence network (perhaps skilled in CT but also in pornographic exploitation) without any oversight, substantial business interests, and has still failed to deliver our nat sec objectives well.
On the one hand, you can have politicians (and every other civilian, regardless of rank or institutional affiliation) dragged through courts, disqualified, jailed, exiled, and even hanged. On the other, you can't even nominate a third rate 2-star in an FIR (nomination in an FIR does not require proof before the nomination). This dissonance is getting too much.
We have to ask ourselves, somewhere, sometime, where the ultimate responsibility lies: in the puppeteers or in their replaceable puppets? I would argue it lies in the former, no matter how vile and incompetent the latter may be. In other words, regardless of what the constitution says, an elected leader cannot change the COAS (for example, prematurely) without risking a goddamn coup or covert sabotage of his/her government. That's absurd!
Bajwa is a traitor, yet the man who called him out for it was harassed, sexually exploited, and filmed in compromising ways while the fat general enjoys state benefits.
When a nation protects the treacherous and attacks truth-tellers (regardless of your opinion about their character flaws), it's time for some serious introspection.
These fundamental facts don't change regardless of the sacrifices of our frontline troops, the necessity of a strong military capability, the populism of the politicians, or any other facet of Pakistani public life. So, we should abandon the whataboutism, and focus on the above.