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Very similar words were used by Egyptian military last year b4 take over.
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No matter how desperate PMLN gets to drag the Army into this, they will not succeed. They have been told repeatedly to sort this out with dialogue and w/o resorting to violence. In short, clean up your own mess.
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Kindly ask the mods to change the title of thread
- Political Martyrdom of Nawaz Sharif & Imran Khan
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Martyrdom waiting for NS is only one, that is suicide martyrdom but it would be different than those whose only head is found after the event. In NS suicide martyrdom, we would have Saddam Hussain type martyrdom if it would come from army, Qaddafi style martyrdom if it would come from PTI or Najibullah (Afghanistan) style martyrdom if it would come from PAT.
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A War Between Pakistan’s Police and Army: Sharif Family’s Latest Reckless Politics
September 2, 2014 at 11:06pm
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Pakistanis have seen a rapid downfall in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s powers in less than two weeks.
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His dramatic downfall is the result of political blunders in fifteen months in power.*
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But instead of resolving the political crisis and uniting the country, the embattled prime minister and the Sharif family are spending money on the media and some journalists and politicians to mount one of the most organized, reckless and dangerous attacks on the nation’s armed forces.*
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The plan is so heinous that it includes turning Pakistanis against their own military through a daily dose of disinformation, and pitching Pakistan’s Police and the Military against each other.*
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In doing all this, the premier and the Sharifs are playing a political game unheard of and unknown in Pakistani political history.*
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There is a reason why Nawaz Sharif is described as the most humiliated prime minister in Pakistan’s history, or why one western news wire service described him as the new Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad in terms of his reduced power and influence. [See Nawaz Sharif: The New Karzai of Islamabad]*
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This is a prime minister who failed to unite Pakistanis after the May 2013 elections. So arrogant was the new prime minister that for nearly a year he would not shake hands with many elected representatives that he disliked. He did not attend a single session of the Senate of Pakistan. He rarely attended Parliament sessions. He failed to rise above old political rivalries that date back a decade, and allowed those hatreds to come in the way of his job to unite Pakistanis. He allowed a simple case of possible election fraud in four constituencies to snowball into a major anti-Nawaz political movement. And while this crisis was developing, Sharif missed numerous opportunities to nip it in the bud. On 17 June, he and his younger brother ordered the police to open fire on unarmed anti-Nawaz Pakistanis in Lahore. Fourteen were killed, nearly a hundred injured. One of the killed was a young pregnant mother. On the night of Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, he turned Islamabad into a war zone and unleashed the most tear-gas shelling in Pakistan’s history on unarmed peaceful protesters who demanded his resignation. Three were killed and nearly 700 were injured. In dealing with this crisis, Sharif created the biggest security scare Pakistanis have seen in peacetime, sealed one of the five provinces that make up the country, and seized all commercial cargo containers to block streets in Punjab and the federal capital, and generally mishandled a normal political event. Not the most innovative solution to a political issue.*
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On Aug. 29, the prime minister stood on the Parliament floor and lied to the nation about who asked the army to broker a solution to the crisis. [He did.]*
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In committing all of these blunders, Nawaz Sharif failed to demonstrate wisdom and experience that should have come handy to a third-time elected premier, the first in Pakistan and one of the few in world democracies.*
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Even now, in 19 days of the anti-Nawaz sit-in in Islamabad, Sharif has failed to act magnanimously to solve what primarily is a political issue, not a security issue.*
Instead, his family, party and some journalists and politicians allied to him through incentives, have launched a ferocious anti-military campaign to divert attention from his political failures.
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The campaign, in the media, parliament and on social media, seeks to portray Sharif as a victim of a military-induced conspiracy, or ‘script’, where the anti-Nawaz movement is supposedly military’s creation.*
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The purpose of this campaign is to turn the debate away from his political failures and blame someone else.*
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The truth, however, is bitter. Since 2008, Pakistan’s military has emerged as the strongest supporter of democracy in the country, and ignored numerous opportunities to intervene in favor of strengthening the government.*
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Whose ‘script’ was it to fail in uniting the nation after elections, arrogantly refuse to solve a political issue before it snowballs, order the murder of 14 Pakistanis in Lahore, and three in Islamabad and injure a total of 1,000 Pakistanis in both cities?*
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Now Nawaz Sharif’s cronies in media and politics are creating misunderstandings between the country’s Police and the Military, like Achakzai did in parliament yesterday. There can hardly be a worse example than this of dangerous political recklessness.*
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should own up his political blunders, recognize his failures that led to a crisis and led his opponents to come out to streets, stop shifting the blame on to the military.*
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As his old comrade Javed Hashmi said in the parliament, thirty-one years at the top of politics is a long time. It is time Nawaz Sharif gracefully resigned to spare Pakistan further agony.*
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Mr. Quraishi is a senior fellow at Project for Pakistan in 21st Century, a journalist and a human rights activist. Follow him @AQpk **
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Malicious campaign against Armed Forces re-launched](Pakistan Observer - Latest News, Pakistan News, and World News)
Liaqat Toor
Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - Islamabad—Some quarters to serve their vested interests have re-launched their malicious campaign to discredit Armed Forces by dragging them in dirty power politics.
Early this year, a section of media, some ministers and a small group in civil society came out against Armed Forces, especially ISI when an anchorperson of a media house was attacked in Karachi.
After a few weeks this drive was subsided but it has resurfaced when Azadi and Inqilab marches were announced by PTI and PAT to press their demands. It gained momentum when both marches set off on August 14 for Islamabad. Both marches were alleged to be scripted by powerful stakeholders.
This time estranged PTI President Javed Hashmy, supported by some senior media persons and clandestine support from PML (N) stalwarts came forth with such allegations against apolitical institution. This drive accelerated when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif himself started posing questions first during his last interaction with anchorpersons a few days back and then on the floor of the House as “who is behind marches camped on D Chowk.”
The speeches by some parliamentarians including Maulana Fazalurrehman and Mahmood Khan Achakzai during the Joint session on Tuesday and raising questions by Interior Minister Ch. Nisar Ali fanned such campaign.
The media got divided and during talk shows, a section of journalists, anchorpersons and analysts get entangled in this debate dragging Armed forces in the dirty politics even when they are engaged in Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan and on heated up LoC as well as Working Boundary .
This situation forced ISPR to issue a statement categorically rejecting the assertions that Army and ISI were backing PTI/PAT in anyway in the current political standoff. “Army is an apolitical institution and has expressed its unequivocal support for democracy at numerous occasions. It is unfortunate that Army is dragged into such controversies. Integrity and unity of the Army is its strength which it upholds with pride,” it said.
Who has ventured in this sinister drive and with what agenda is a big question, but it is clear that vested interests do not want Armed Forces to be an impartial state institution ensuring stability in the country. Dragging them in dirty political game will cause great harm to national unity and cohesion, analysts in Islamabad said.