The Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production has termed the criticism on the armed forces and sensitive institutions by “so-called media analysts” baseless.
The meeting of the committee was held at the Parliament House on Monday and was headed by its chairman, Mushahid Hussain Syed. Members of the committee including Raja Zafarul Haq, Sehar Kamran, Colonel (r) Tahir Hussain Mashhadi and Farhatullah Babar attended the meeting.
Referring to the Pakistan Army, the committee gave recommendations that unnecessary disapproval of the national assets must be stopped, as it was defaming national institutions all over the world. Mashhadi said no country criticised its own armed forces and sensitive institutions but in Pakistan, the “so-called analysts do so, arguing unnecessarily about the excess of national defence budget. This defames our institutions abroad”.
He said the army and relevant institutions were not taking steps essential for saving the reputation of our sensitive institutions and insisted on the role of the Defence Ministry in this regard. Mashhadi asked why were local government elections not held in cantonment areas even though a big population of civilians lived there. The defence secretary said the affairs of the cantonment areas were connected with the defence institutions and only they had to deal with it.
Defence Secretary Nargis Sethi told the committee that the national defence budget amounted to Rs 545 billion only and 70 percent of this was spent on paying the salaries of the officers and soldiers. The committee directed the Defence Ministry to give a briefing on the defence budget after Eid.
The whole world is critisizing Pakistan army. Kiayani is doing a good job destroying the reputation of Pakistan army. He has turned the army into a bunch of coward just like him. He should resign if he has any shame. He is playing the role of a presidential body guard instead of being an army chief. He will go down in history as a loser.
@Daddy – am sure you are some Indian-ass roaming here and have nothing to do except for scratching and defaming all Pakistani – no one except you is a ultimate loser…
The media is criticing army for No reason.
Media is used to demoralize army.
@Daddy you are an indian -ass…
@Jiyo-Pakistan. Calling me names does not hide kiayani's incompetence. Address the issues and tell me he has not failed. I will give you a list longer than your mama's nose of kiayani's failures.
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1. The army manipulates the media most.
2. The ISI kills most journalists
3. The defense budget is a lie. Because it excludes military's financial and earning assets like NLC etc. And there is a lot of it. And then there are foreign direct assistance …
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The senate committee is a slave at best …
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