Re: Your View on the Army
Bring a politician like Quaid-e-Azam with his integrity, and I assure you that no one from any force, including army, would dare to kick such politicians out of power.
If army kicks politicians out of power, fault lies with politicians not army. People in army just like any Pakistanis think about Pakistan as much, if not more. Pakistani forces consist of around a million people that are always there to give their lives for Pakistan and come from every sector of society (especially middle and lower class) and from all provinces. They are also voters and have their own political affiliations. So, no one can say that they are any different than other Pakistanis or want any bad for Pakistan.
Put yourself in the shoe of an army chief. What would you do if you see that a politician in post of Prime Minister is doing injustice to the post, and along with his friends and associates robbing the country instead of serving the country, and civilians in position (Police and judiciary) are not doing anything to stop them?
Army is not employee of any individual or politicians to stay loyal to them. Army is employee of Nation and their loyalty should be to the Nation. It is not duty of army to be guard dog of a country looking at only external threat, as Nation is not paying them for that, Nation is paying them to see that no threat, be that external or internal, harm the interest of Nation.
Most citizens have no access to see what is going on in the corridor of power neither they have knowledge of everything about the person they vote. Voters do not know how much the person they voted earns, what tax they paid, what is their wealth, how much their wealth incrased during them in office. How that person lives, what they spend, what bank balance that person have, did they served the country with honesty or was doing corruption in office, what was the behaviour of them in job, actually, voters do not know anything about the person they vote, including what that person is really doing when in power.
They judge politicians from their promises, but it is duty of government employees (civil servants who get their pay from taxes) that anyone that gets elected does not harm the country, and army is also government employee (who gets their pay from taxes) and it is also their duty to see if anyone that get elected is not harming the country, or looting and plundering wealth of the country.
The public servent should remain in barracks where they belong and stop being masters. Hadn't Ghulam Muhammed threatened politicians with Ayub's pistol, or then PM fired COAS and ousted president for threatening him of Martial Law, the things would have been different.
For once and for ever, our wardi waalay naukar should have act like naukars. Zaleel siyasatdaar aur kameeni fauj.