Re: The Ultimate Losers in Pakistan!
SB: Since you switched the argument towards the exercise of power in the discussion on Presidents..(yet studiously did not do so when you used token examples like Balkh Mazari as an example of PMs)..I would argue that we should look at some of these Generals mentioned in reference to the power they exercised. As is well known Kakar is widely considered to be the weakest COAS in pakistans history and exercised very limmited power. Similarly Yahya Khan was very much part of a junta with limited powers of his own. The real power was in the formation commanders. The formation commanders reflect the make up of the Army.
This reminds me, I came across a nice little piece by Mushahid Hussain, General Secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League. Which is quite amusing in light of this discussion..as it uses terms like establishment etc:
Pervaiz Musharraf :newsline.com.pk
The establishment’s man with a difference:
A Muhajir who is culturally more a Punjabi albeit an English-medium one, a dictator coexisting with a critical press, notwithstanding the occasional authorised thrashing of dissident hacks in the inimitable style of the Punjab Police ‘phhanti’.