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| Army Chief & ISI head seek judicial cover against any Pak move to sack them | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 8: Following opposition by the civil society to any move to put Pakistan under the Army rule the old order in which the Army Chief would fix the age of the civilian Government seems to have changed. The change is there but not to the extent in which the civilian regime has assumed powers to fix the age of the Army Chief in Pakistan.
The change is evident from a petition, that has been admitted by the Supreme Court in Pakistan, against the perceived move to sack the Army Chef, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and the ISI Chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha. Though the petition is said to be the outcome of the memo controversy in which the Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, is alleged to have sought help from Washington against the move of the Army Chief to dislodge the elected Government through a coup, it reflects growing mistrust between Zardari-Gilani led Government and the Army and the ISI heads.
Even Pakistan Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani,who is locked in a conflict with the judiciary, expressed his fears over the possible Army takeover. He has gone to the extent of blaming the Army for not having allowed a single elected Government to complete its term.
Being aware of a situation in India where the Government fixes the age of the Army Chief Gilani has praised the strength of the Indian democratic structure. This way as Prime Minister he has reasons to lament over the growing threat to the democratic structure that has been functioning since 2008 elections because he is equally aware of the political history of Pakistan where the Army Chief or the ISI head fixes the age of the civilian regime.
Reports from across the LOC have revealed that four factors had been responsible for the Army to abandon its plan to dislodge the Zardari led Government through a coup. These factors included continued opposition from the civil society, including all the political parties in Pakistan, lack of cooperation by several Corps commanders to any move to Army takeover, Washington's support to the civilian regime and opposition to any military dictatorship and Kayanai's disinterest in takeover because of financial and political mess in Pakistan.
According to these reports, even Pakistan's all-weather friend, China, too has been opposed to any Army takeover in Islamabad.
In view of these developments the Army Chief and the ISI head have seemingly felt that since the tide was against any military rule they could be sacked once Zardari-Gilani combine was free from the snares thrown over them by the Supreme Court. Both Kayani and Pasha have fears that once Gilani was free from the ongoing conflict with the judiciary he may prevail upon Zardari to sack them. Hence the two have engineered filing of a petition seeking Supreme Court's cover against any Government plan on axing them.
As long as the executive-judiciary and civilian regime-Army conflict continued in Pakistan the overall political, financial, security scenario in the country may remain fluid. It is yet to be seen whether this fluid political scene in Pakistan is going to affect the ongoing moves for reducing trust deficit between Islamabad and New Delhi. |
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