Enough

[Captain1]

Re: Enough

@ehsan

In the aftermath of Bin Laden saga we seemed to have gone overboard in our criticism of all our institutions. I feel we have been unfair and time to stop. Yes the people at the top have been incompetent but we always knew that. While the world was focussed on the fall out of Osama, our top political leadership was busy swearing in new ministers and than our PM in the midst of one of worst crisis departed for France. Yes they should be criticised, so should the COAS and head of ISI. But that is not the point of my thread. what I want to say is that dont tear apart the armed forces as an institution. The core soldiers are not at fault. They are busy fighting and laying down their lives to cleanse our country from the terrorists, of which Osama was one. We have lost over 5000 of these jawans in the last few years. Is that how we repay them? In our hatred of USA many of us are mourning the death of a terrorist who was principally responsible for the death of over 30,000 innocent Pakistanis.

Lets keep our criticism limited to the people who should be held accountable and rise above our political affiliations to condemn whoever failed in this saga, but not tear the whole institution down.

Yes it was a terrible failure of intelligence but so was 9/11 for America, 7/7 for UK and Mumbai for India. It happens but it doesn’t mean we tear the very fabric of these institutions apart. Our army overall is a very well trained army and has done us proud on many occasions and here I am talking about the core soldiers.

Time for soul searching but not tearing our institutions apart. It is not us but our enemies who will benefit if that happens.

As much as I like to agree with you I would like to say when there is a failure by ‘top team’ of an institution then its whole institution that gets criticism just like actions of a PM are supposed to be govt representation. I understand that majority of our soldiers are real fighters, they are laying their lives for sake of Pakistan and its people. Any criticism of army is mostly directed at the top team of the army, all the failures listed by Anwar Pasha are also because of failure at the top. We do need to continue criticism of the top team for their failures or for keeping nation in dark at various times.