ISI Chief Zaher-ul-Islam wanted to take control of country by planning IK's Dharna

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Re: ISI Chief Zaher-ul-Islam wanted to take control of country by planning IK’s Dharn

@GoldenAsif

We are fortunate to have Raheel Sharif as COAS during these critical times. He has done a tremendous job in rallying the troops to curb the menace of terrorism. He is constantly on the move to hunt the terrorists, their abettors and foreign sponsors. The current improvement in the security situation in the country is all due to his leadership, otherwise the Army was the same. His Predecessor Kiyani was dull and not brave enough to take on the same terrorists. This is the importance of leadership.

Only man working to safeguard Pakistan’s interests. The one (NS) who should be doing this is busy expanding his personal business empire.

It is just unfortunate that COAS’s term is shorter than the senators, MPAs and MNAs but Raheel has made the biggest impact on the people of Pakistan. Just wondering where does he get all the time? Raheel probably doesn’t have hobbies like playing polo or golf!

It is also a lesson for the next army chief that they can do things if they are sincere enough even if they stayed behind and drove things from there. No need to grab power to do things.

Hindsight is 20/20, but from what I see now, Raheel has been a better leader than kiyani.

Now it could just be lifafa journalism, but I do remember reading that ISI chief Pasha had presented the plan that we could level waziristan after moving people out and america would be willing to pay for at least a big portion of the rebuilding cost. I find some truth to it since if we remember in 2009, Pakistan did feature in a pivot by Obama and America even sent 18-20 chinooks for aid operations in 2010 floods which is a pretty big footprint. Think of how better off Pakistan would be with CPEC starting earlier if an operation had happened in 2009. People were already anti-TTP after their bombings in Punjab while you can’t really sway some deobandi / salafists even if TTP dropped an atomic bomb on islamabad, so there is no excuse for not doing it sooner.

As far as kiyani, I think that he fit better as an ISI sleuth, which was his post before COAS, where you have to be duplicitous unlike the more leadership role of COAS in Pakistan. He is after all the go-between wrt to PPP and musharraf and I think that this probably mattered when he got his tenure extention.

Perhaps, this is also the time that more leadership is passed down the army so the institution doesn’t fall back to its own ways if and when Raheel Shareef leaves next year. I hope that COAS stays in his constitutionally appointed role and if he has to enter politics, he does it after two years? (constitutional condition for army officers), but I am wary since many armymen do fail in politics.