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Pakistan is passing through its most difficult time which will surely decide that what kind of future it will have. On one hand we have extremism and terrorism while on the other hand we have corruption, lawlessness and weak economy. The only institute which was stable in the history of Pakistan was armed forces of Pakistan and now even that institute is being pushed to the wall but unfortunately by our own people.
I am not a blind supporter of army. I also know that there are blunders (Lal Masjid, Balochistan operation, Kharotabad incident, intelligence failure on Osama Bin Laden, PNS attack and killing of young boy in Karachi) done by our armed forces. But does that mean that each and everything they have done is wrong? NO. What should be the behaviour of an educated person? How they should behave in this situation? I feel very terrible when I see that our educated persons put blame for each and everything on army. One should look into the whole picture and present their views based on realities. We should criticize our armed forces where they were wrong like the incidents mentioned above but at the same time we should also point out the positive effects we have on our country due to our armed forces.
Our armed forces are not angels. People in these institutes are human and they also err. We should hold accountable to them for their mistakes but this accountability and criticism should be positive. Abusing armed forces will not fix our issues. We are an independent state because of these soldiers. Otherwise how many of us would volunteer to go just for one day in Sianchin and defend the borders. It is quite easy to sit in air condition rooms and criticize.
People are saying that our armed forces and agencies should be under civilian control. Well as a matter of fact, they already are according to the law. Now if these people (President and Prime Minister of Pakistan) are not capable of handling or controlling the armed forces then why to blame forces for that. We all know that how pure our political leaders are. I am also of the view that armed forces should only defend the borders of Pakistan but then who will defend our country internally? Are our politicians fit for this job? No not at all. So first our politicians should show that they have the capabilities to run this country then I am with all those who say that armed forces should be strictly under civilian control. If one argues that current leadership should handle our institutions (armed forces), then I must disagree over the capabilities of our current political regime.
Whether it is a natural disaster like earthquake, flood or any war, it was our armed forces that helped this nation not our political regime. So we should highlight the positive steps of our army and criticize and hold accountable to them as well for their wrong doings.
they have remained our heroes for whatever good they did,,,,but now they shud be brought 2 jstce for future deeds nt 2 happen,,,we want them 2 clean their hands that we can again shower roses when they march against any enemy bt for me i will love to be shooted by enemy rather than my forcs
ReplyDeleteWell in my opinion, we should remain balance in our approach towards criticizing any organization. Criticism helps to improve any organization and Army is no exception. So the door to criticize army is as open as criticism on any other government department. However i would agree with the writer that the criticism should be balanced.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, the army mindset needs to be changed as well. i would not comment on that, as this is not a direct topic of this article !