The army’s last chance?

[ice_man]

^^^ That is obvious from all the posts here itself.

So who controls the army? Legally? Not Zardari? Who takes the political decisions on army deployment and engagement? Or does pakistan run as below:

Army - Calls all the shots related to the nation's defense (internal more than external), rule unto itself

ISI - Calls all the shots related to the destruction/destabilisation of India

Democratic Government - Fall guys for the Army's return to power, who are supposed to utilise their time in the interim as the poster boys in drumming up sponsorship from democratic USA

Police/Paramilitary - We never really hear of them out here

Judiciary - Same as the above (except for Hindu judge and Judge sackings and street public protests)

Oh to be a Pakistani common man ......

Cheers, Doc

this my friend is the PICTURE YOUR MEDIA PORTRAYS!

however, everyone in Pakistan is answerable to the head of state! and hence the question of ZARDARI still being our president! If it was the army running the show do you honestly think COAS would like to salute a man known as MR.10%

secondly if the ISI was involved in "destabilizing" INDIA...why wasn't india able to put any dirt on the ISI in december last year when the world was all ears!! besides ISI is under the army and the army is under the head of state!

police/paramilitary well it is more or less the same in india....where police which is actually the hardest working branch of civil security is ridiculed the most!

and democratic government same faces have reappeared for the last 2 decades and it has all been downhill...under the sharif's and bhuttos!

 

[Kashmiri Nationalist]

Pakistan can stomach the loss of a soldier NATO and its allies can not simple as.

 

[Kashmiri Nationalist]

Talking of the Indian And Pakistan Armed forces, how long did it take India to solve the Mumbai crisis and how long did it Pakistan to solve the Lahore Police Station crisis? The Army does its job in Pakistan and that is to protect the country. True there have been Coup d'etat' s but weren't they when the country was going down the path of a failed state?.

Also while we are on the Mumbai issue the issue was caused by a group fighting for the freedom of Kashmir if India didn't do all the atrocities it does there it wouldn't have happened in the first place.