Army foils democracy for own 'needs': ex-ISI Chief

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Re: Army foils democracy for own ‘needs’: ex-ISI Chief

@USResident

Corruption usually runs rampant when the civilian administration can bend the politics by means other than the consitution and legal structure of the country. Take MQM for instance, Altaf bhai would not be or remain in politics had Karachi not been under the gun of MQM. Surely, civilians unarming armed civilians would result in civil war. Any political party having a armed and student wing should be ousted from politics. Unless we change the very structure of politics in our country, discussing who is right and who is wrong is a ludicrous debate.

The problem is that even army dictators have not worked towards taking away arms from political parties, instead they have supplied arms and support to a party in order to break the control of another party in an area i.e. MQM created in 80s, then MQM Haqiqi created in 90s etc. I would have supported army take-overs if they were sincere, if they were working towards evolution of democratic setup… but all they do is make a drama list of what they will fix in earlier part of their career, do some short stunts and prove their efficiency then they go back to the ways of extending their power… resulting in going back to same position.