Nice little cameo, for the cheerleaders, but which I will soundly rip to shreds below.
SC took suo moto notice upon Imran Khan's arbitrary extension to Bajwa's tenure as Chief of the Army Staff; the verdict was merely to provide extensions within legal ambit. As there was no provision of extension in the tenure of the Army Chief, Imran Khan complied with the SC by amending the Army Act stating how critical Bajwa was and how inevitable an extension, however undesired, was at that juncture. So, the suo moto notice was based on an unconstitutional act by Imran Khan!
Oh yes, I remember it all. Everybody came together to give extension to the most important military leader. But as a reaction only. Do not forget who got the ball rolling and who started the whole process by providing extension in the first place. And it was Imran Khan who set the term of the extension to 3 years.
Yes, they were all in it together. But again, you conveniently forget who gave the extension, who set the term of extension to 3-years, who introduced the amendment to the Army Act etc., it was all Imran Khan; the opposition merely played a supporting act.
I don't recall any proposal which was minus IK and if somebody did even forward the proposal then he/she must not have been in the right frame of mine.
I am acting smart by showing people the mirror? It was Munafiq-e-Aala Imran Khan who gave an extension to Bajwa after making speech upon speech on the adverse effects of giving extensions when he was in the opposition. Imran Khan said that it was critical to give extension to Bajwa, as evidently the matters could not be handled by any of the successors. And it was Imran Khan who decided to bring in an amendment in the Army Act and insert clause for extension of the Army Chief for 3 years rather then to appoint a new Army Chief. So it's ironic that Imran Khan started calling that same Bajwa, who was the most critical and most patriotic Pakistani until a mere 7 months ago, a tyrant and Mir Jaffer!