Re: Musharraff, the safarshi
Seems that BB did not tell the whole story, did she? :)
In Army as in all institutions, it is their upper echelons that promote lower ranking officers to upper rank on suitability, performances and abilities. Once promotion above Brigadier level is decided, Chief of Army sends officer names to the Prime minister for signature. Prime Minister sign the files (and I believe send that to President to get it signed), that’s all. [Well, same happens for all laws too, that once Parliament decides, prime minister endorses, files go to President and President signs that. If President objects, he sends the files back with objection].
Same happened that Gen Aslam Baig sent many files for promotions of Brigadiers to then Prime Minister BB. But BB did not sign the file of Musharraf and sent it back. What I know, Aslam Beg sent the file back to BB with note that to put the reason behind not signing the file. This time, instead of putting any reasons (that she was asked), she signed the file.
Now, Aslam Beg promoted many Brigadiers that were from all provinces. If he was partial, then there would not have been any Brigadiers promoted from other provinces, right?
Obviously who are capable and who deserves promotion from amongst Brigadiers rank, only army would have knowledge, certainly knowledge much more than BB. But what BB did, it shows the mentality of BeNazir, not Aslam Beg, and it also shows that she was mentally partiality while she was Prime Minister (even though she was suppose to be impartial at that post and should be serving all, without partiality).