Unfortunately Sir with the utmost respect, i would have to disagree with you.
The Officer speaking is perfectly right, and i am glad the FC is using the stick. These damn bureaucrats and local politicians squander all the money, fail to perform their duties and in the end expect the Army to fix all the problems. I am glad the Officer set them straight, and scolded the local politicians for failing to perform their job. When corruption is infested in every civilian department, there is a limit to the patience of the Army. You can see the Officer scolding them that all the civic work will be done under Army supervision, because these damn toads squander all the money.
While I thank you for your support of the soldier's integrity and honesty, that sums up Pakistan's problems in one short, sharp lesson. That the Army believes that it has a monopoly of virtue, and that it has the role of umpire and inspector of local political integrity and honesty. That an officer in uniform may take the lot to task with impunity, with no fear of consequences. It was shocking for somebody used to seeing civilian control over the armed forces.
I also understand that the point may seem alien, almost incomprehensible, in your context.
We call it in Punjabi
Danda peer eyy vigday tigdayaan da means Stick makes the thugs obedient and disciplined.
Depends on whom you see as the thug in the case.
He's being a bully for telling them to get their lazy asses up and start to work on your districts, instead of relying on the Army to do everything?
Not his to say. He should stick to what he is supposed to do, defend his country.
Are you serious? Ever tried to reason/converse with a Pakhtun? This is the way they talk. All very normal.
Ah.
My mistake.
So it was a reasoned discourse on the philosophy and practice of local self-government, delivered by a soldier-statesman.
A large number of Pakistani friends have been at haste to assure me that the matter is perfectly in order; a bluff, honest soldier in uniform is delivering a dressing down to a lazy bunch of politicians who expect the Army to do everything for their constituencies that they should be doing. I am left savouring this moment of truth.
That is the point of view that made General Musharraf explain to a television interviewer that 'democracy had not been tailored to Pakistan's circumstances'.
Indeed.
It refurbishes my dented faith in Indian democracy. Do continue, dear neighbours.
No one was killed or maimed, can't say the same for Indian held Kashmir though.
Not relevant and an absurd argument. No soldier hectors a Kashmiri politician. It is the other way around most of the time.
