Majority of the corps commanders and top brass of the military are supportive of army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani’s approach of letting the Pakistan People’s Party government complete its term.
Sources close to both political and military leaderships maintain that apart from some powerful elements in the military that want to see the back of the incumbents at the earliest even if that involves some sort of tinkering with the prevailing political system, the rest of the lot does not want to get involved in any controversial move which may harm the PPP government.
But more heartening for the rulers is that although Gen Kayani and most of his corps commanders are not happy with the performance of the government, they have no desire of sending the PPP government packing through any adventurism.
The sources revealed that Kayani also recently conveyed a message to the prime minister through common friends and intermediaries to be more watchful in the coming days in the wake of the ‘memogate’ controversy, adding that the PM softened his stance inside and outside parliament after this “message”.
The top military brass was not happy with the stance of the political leadership on “memogate” and the way the government was protecting former Pakistani ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani. Some recent outbursts of the prime minister also worked to widen the gulf between the two state institutions.
Tension soared between the two institutions when the leaders from both sides took diametrically opposite positions on “memogate” before the Supreme Court, creating political instability in the country.
But Gen Kayani’s statement that the military would not destablise the present set up and supported democracy, followed by President Asif Zardari’s reconciliatory tone during his recent address to mark the death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto worked wonders in damage-control efforts.
The sources claimed that the situation is under control now, terming any move of destablisation of the government next to impossible. The images of meeting of the prime minister with the army chief and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Khalid Shamim Wyne and chiefs of other services on the sidelines of an event at the National Defence University also indicate the increasing thaw in the relations between the two institutions. Political analysts believe that there is hardly any constitutional way to dislodge the president or the prime minister, let alone removing them both. They said removal of one through any legal or other means would not serve the purpose either. However, some political leaders think that the government was still not out of the woods and the month of March would be very crucial.
i dont think so….PPP will do more corruption n poor will become more poor…PLZ help the nation !!!
He has to take the chance before the ” boat ” sinks completely 🙂
This time the army will not involve directly to throw out Zardari, now this job will be done by Supreme Court and army will be behind it. As for as Memo is concern, it has damaged army's fame already. Because the way it has supported Mansoor Ejaz, a person who is known as enemy of our army, not like by Pakistanis in general.
that is good and pro democracy stance
They want the boat
Nadeem Sir jee;
analysis ka maaza nahin aiya
When the military does step in, you all cry about “democracy being attacked”. And when the Army wants to respect Democracy, you cry about them not intervening. With Pakistanis, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. There was no need to ouster Musharraf, he would have eventually stepped down, but you all forced him out. How has that been going for all of us lately? Pakistanis don’t deserve democracy, they deserve a one-party communist type regime. Maybe under such a repressive regime, you will come to respect and honour what democracy and voting really is.
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