In panic mode: PM battens down a hatches
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister House is pronounced to be in a state of panic. And justifiably so. Last week’s matter of army arch General Qamar Javed Bajwa, that finished headlines in a inhabitant media, was a revelation instance of flourishing confusion in a confidence investiture over a government’s dilly-dallying on pivotal issues involving a military.
Gen Qamar pronounced during a revisit to Kharian castle that “there will be no concede on a grace of Pakistan Army”. The troops didn’t mention a context of a statement, though sources contend a army arch was responding to questions from troops officials about a ‘dormant inquiry’ into a Dawn leaks debate and Rana Sanaullah’s critique of troops courts.
After Gen Qamar’s statement, it’s not business as common during a Prime Minister House. Nawaz Sharif conferred with his devoted aides on how to control a repairs finished to civil-military ties by a new developments, insiders told The Express Tribune.
“As a initial step, Sharif has stopped PML-N leaders from creation statements opposite a troops courts though a accede of a executive leadership,” pronounced one insider. “Even low cadre leaders of a statute celebration have been destined to equivocate creation statements, generally about a confidence establishment, that competence trigger controversies.”
Not everybody would attend in TV talk-shows. According to insiders, a PML-N has designated a handful of officials to offer as a party’s articulate heads on inhabitant issues, though they too have been destined to follow a party’s guidelines.
The statute celebration believed a Dawn leaks debate would die down with a depart of Raheel Sharif from a Army House, though they were mistaken. Gen Qamar’s matter has weakened a statute party.
The confidence investiture is reportedly not happy with a government’s attempts to hush adult a quarrel triggered by a announcement of a ‘planted news story’ in a English denunciation daily Dawn in Oct, final year.
The confidence investiture believes a ‘fabricated story’ was fed to a paper by supervision officials to assail a military. Following indignant greeting from a troops to a story, a afterwards information minister, Pervaiz Rashid, was sent make-up and an exploration was ordered.
Subsequently, reports finished a rounds in a news media that a jobs of some comparison bureaucrats portion during a Prime Minister House were also on a chopping block. But zero happened.
In November, a supervision set adult a seven-member committee, headed by Justice (retd) Aamer Raza Khan, to examine a matter and repair responsibility. It transpired after that Justice Khan had tighten family with a Sharif family. Nothing has come out of a exploration so far, many to a discomfit of a confidence establishment.
Relevant circles trust if a confidence investiture refused to relent, some officials of a Prime Minister House competence be finished ‘scapegoats’. “Someone has to compensate a price,” an insider told The Express Tribune. “And that someone would many substantially be baboos (civil servants).”
The central orator for a Prime Minister House, Musadik Malik, was approached for a central chronicle on a story, though he didn’t respond to phone calls, SMSs and WhatsApp messages.
Premier Sharif’s Adviser Ameer Muqam denied there was any aria in a civil-military relations. “Some issues have popped adult that need to be seen in a sold context,” he pronounced though elaborating.
Asked about Rana Sanaullah’s critique of a troops courts, Muqam pronounced a Punjab law apportion has already retracted his statement.
Political researcher Kanwar Dilshad says a government’s ‘mishandling’ of quarrelsome issues stirred a ‘tough stance’ from a confidence establishment. “The approach former army arch Gen (retd) Raheel Sharif was trolled on amicable media and in TV talk-shows was firm to have consequences,” he told The Express Tribune.
“Rana Sanaullah’s matter combined fuel to a fire. Then there is a planted story emanate that has been inside adult in a rarely indeterminate manner. My recommendation to a supervision is, ‘learn your doctrine and stop personification with fire,” Dilshad said.
He pronounced Gen Qamar’s summary is shrill and clear. “There’s no going back. The primary apportion competence have good intentions to rise a considerate equation with a confidence establishment, though there are people around him who like to play games. And this will backfire.”
Former sovereign apportion Mushahidullah Khan is reportedly among one of a hopefuls for a container of Sindh governor. Informed circles contend this could also be one of a reasons for a aria in a civil-military relations. Khan had to quit his ministerial bureau after he indicted a afterwards ISI chief, Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam, of plotting to overpower a PML-N government.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 15th, 2017.
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