Re: How to keep army away?
Definition of Dictatorship.
How about letting the civil setup sort out its own mess. Army has had the biggest budget since the history of Pakistan, can you guess why?
True, the politicians should feel the heat and be responsible but not from the armed forces, but from the people. The only way that can happen is if people are given time to maturely filter out bad choices. Army meddling in civil affairs, only gives the corrupt politicians icing to cover their bad recipe because they use the "Army intervention" to their advantage and play on that marshal law card.
It's a no brainer.
It seems that you are just getting misguided by the propaganda of corrupt politicians.
Actually, it is not possible for people (voters) to know if a politician is corrupt or honest. Only people that could know are people who are in government service and have access to what is happening in office or what a politician have (possess). It is people in government service (police, investigating agencies, anti-corruption department, taxation department, and so on ...) who have access to not only all what politician does in office but what that politician have, as it is these departments that have access to all government papers and can investigate a politician.
Army in Pakistan has biggest network of intelligence in Pakistan and have access to many documents as well as access to people in different departments. They also have military power to act against corrupt but powerful politicians, something that most other departments do not have. Hence they act.
Well, let say that what you believe is right and it should be voters who decide if a politician is corrupt or honest (as most corrupt politicians says that voters should decide, and would like people to believe that too).
I do not know neither I believe it is possible that voters could know that a politician they voted is honest or corrupt, and that once in office, that politician is not doing any corruption.
Pakistani voters are mostly uneducated but let say that voters are educated and very intelligent too. Now, tell me how a voter would get access of what the politician is doing in office, how many accounts a particular politician have, what he has in his accounts, how much money he transferred abroad, what properties and wealth that politician had before election and how much properties and wealth he increased once in office, and so on. Please tell me how?