The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been very critical of the country’s armed forces lately, with some of their leaders openly ridiculing the armed forces inside and outside parliament.
“They [the armed forces] have turned this country into a jungle… if anyone writes the truth, he is made Salim Shahzad… Rangers are deployed on borders and if you want them to be deployed in urban areas, you need to train them…,” said the PML-N’s Khwaja Saad Rafique while speaking on a point of order in the National Assembly on Thursday.
He used abusive language against the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers but his comments were later expunged from the record on the request of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Rafique also said his party could not accept the arrest of the culprits by Rangers and they should be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Two days ago in the National Assembly, senior PML-N leader Khwaja Asif had expressed concern over the lack of accountability mechanism in the armed forces.
Asif said the rulers and the military’s top brass were serving one another’s interests.
On Monday, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan claimed in the NA that government ministers took dictation from the military during the in-camera sitting of parliament over the Abbottabad incident.
