It doesn't matter if he's twelve or fifty, @Shan-e-ibrahim is right. Most people believe, and rightly so, that Zardari and Nawaz are thieves.
Let's just get straight to the point: you have a problem with the fact that Pakistanis glorify, respect and trust the military more than Nawaz Sharif or any other murderous thief..
You are making points for me that I never said. Most people in Pakistan respect their military and so is the case almost every where. But, in Pakistan, the military rule has raped the country out of progress, growth and a stable future. You can twist this in two hundred ways, but you can't change the history and the reality.
Second, I don't have an issue with Pakistan's Army, if you read my post above, I said, most people in the entire globe, glorify their military and respect it. That's fine. But while I agree to someone's good, I also am highlighting the bad. Pakistani people's love for the military was exploited and abused by many generals who did coupes and marshall laws and all. At the end, you had a huge country without basic growth like energy, power, water, proper streets, under these generals with growing culture of militias, violence and weapons. So the same military thinking its more patriotic than anyone, f'd over the country for decades. 3-4 years of current democracy has brought more to you than the past 70 years.
Someone told me recently and he was a Pakistani guy, that Pakistanis want to find short cuts in life on everything. This seems true in this case also.
People can believe what they want to, but if NS and Zardari are thieves, I can give you plenty of examples of generals who did a LOT of corruption too. How do you think Shuja Pasha landed a $ 20 million a year, 5 year long contract with the UAE????
How did Mushy the Cushy bough expensive homes in the US and the UK? How does he own a huge farm in Islamabad and then a nice house in Karachi? Are these generals, aka, Public Servants or Kings? Even the US Army's generals don't make enough to have homes in so many countries or have shinny new BMW 7 series till after they retire and find high dollar jobs.
Pakistani people's love and respect for their military was exploited and abused by many generals and as a result, the country couldn't advance a foot. If two of these generals in the past 5 decades had paid attention or had the mindset towards economy, you wouldn't see electric shortages to where they are today. They also never allowed civilian governments to finish their terms under the legitimacy of "patriotism", which was also driven by hunger to remain in control and power. Today, the world has openly stepped in, from China to the US, that if the military takes over again and abuses the country through depriving growth to the system (which then creates intolerance and extremism), that all aid and investments would be suspended for good. The army won't have the money to pay salaries, let alone fight long wars. This is that saying, if you don't clean up your house, someone else will for you.
Its time for the Pakistani people to stand united and demand their own government who produced a better life stye and opportunity for average people. Not glorify and praise the military. Those guys deserve respect as they put their lives on the line for the country, but it doesn't mean they then have the forceful ability to take over and destroy growth of an entire country and ruin 200 million people's future.
Frankly speaking, I met with two of your corps commanders a couple of years ago when I stopped in Pakistan for two days. They both off the record shared with me that the days of military rule are gone and that the majority in the military don't want to end up or be remembered like Mushy the Cushy, and that the military knows that if there is no civilian government running and growing the country, Pakistan will become sitting duck for India and won't be able to compete on any forum, let alone competing military wise. Remember, in real world, the Army Chief salutes the PM and drops his belt when ordered to do so, without questions. If he takes over the civilian government, he puts the entire country into a paralysis mode as the military can't run, and grow a country. No one would do business with you like it has been under the military rule before!!