Since militia are mandated to guard the territorial integrity in their respective nations, for Pakistan navy leader Gen Syed Asim Munir to mention that Pakistan’s army “will guard each inch of our motherland” is flawlessly in order.
However, with the aid of using concurrently including that during case of an Indo-Pak conflict, the Pakistan navy will “take battle to the enemy,” Pakistan’s new navy leader has given a clean indication that opposite to expectancies of him finishing Pakistan navy’s age-antique dependancy of saber-rattling, jingoism is still Rawalpindi’s taste of the day!
However, Gen Munir’s supporters preserve that it’s too early and unfair to categorize him as a battle-monger or an incurable hawk primarily based totally entirely on his provocative hazard to “take battle to the enemy.”
Many contend that given the host of troubles created with the aid of using the Pakistan navy that he has inherited, from precipitating an remarkable political turmoil withinside the us of a to its abject failure to subdue homegrown terror, the brand new navy leader has no different desire however to assignment himself as being extraordinarily difficult and truely uncompromising even as managing arch-rival India.
Gen Munir has, indeed, loads on his hands. While the TTP’s writ runs in erstwhile FATA, Rawalpindi’s grand plan of achieving ‘strategic depth’ with the aid of using putting in a pliant dispensation in Kabul went horribly wrong.
Despite being patronized with the aid of using Rawalpindi and hosted in Pakistan for almost decades, after seizing strength in Afghanistan, the Taliban has refused to behave as Pakistan’s minion.
Furthermore, regardless of Pakistan navy’s undercover agent leader Lt Gen Faiz Hameed making sure that participants of the Haqqani network [which was Rawalpindi’s most trusted ‘strategic asset’] were given the maximum influential posts withinside the government, Kabul has now no longer handiest refused to play the position of a minion, however additionally declined to behave towards TTP.
Though Rawalpindi’s continual meddling in Pakistan’s politics isn’t anyt any secret, no navy leader had ever admitted this. So, what pressured outgoing navy leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to accept “the army’s interference in politics for the beyond 70 years” is the cause at the back of tremendous public complaint of the Pakistan navy, and that too, simply days earlier than he hung his uniform, is as a substitute intriguing.
Furthermore, with the aid of using giving an warranty that “the army decided…that it might by no means once more intrude in any political remember in future,” and his pledge that “we’re strictly devoted to it,” Gen Bajwa has effectively ‘straight-jacketed’ Gen Munir.
While time will display the genuine nature of Gen Munir’s method closer to India, however simply inside some days, the brand new navy leader has made it truely clean that he has no goal of honoring his predecessor’s promise of Rawalpindi having decided “that it might by no means once more intrude in any political remember in future.”
Au contraire, with the aid of using announcing that “The international ought to make certain justice and supply what’s promised to the Kashmiri humans as in line with UN resolutions,” he has unambiguously indicated that despite the fact that being irrefutably political in nature, the difficulty of Kashmir very plenty stays the exceptional maintain of Rawalpindi!
Similarly, his stern caution that “No one may be allowed to disrupt the hard earned profits of battle towards terror made accordingly far” made for the duration of his Tirah Valley go to close to the Afghanistan border too is a clean message to Kabul that Rawalpindi will maintain dictating Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy.
On the house front, Gen Munir hasn’t but made any public declaration on PTI leader Imran Khan’s ongoing political slugfest with the Shehbaz Sharif government.
However, with media reviews of Pakistan President Dr. Arif Alvi flying right all the way down to Lahore and convincing Khan on Gen Munir’s appointment as navy leader, it’s obvious that Rawalpindi had despatched throughout a sturdy message to the cricketer-turned-baby-kisser via Alvi.
Resultantly, Khan positioned up a defiant stance even as congratulating the brand new navy leader on his advertising with the aid of using him reminding of ‘Quaid-i-Azam’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s well-known phrases – “Do now no longer neglect about that the militia are the servants of the humans and also you do now no longer make countrywide policy; it’s far we, the civilians, who determine those problems and it’s far your responsibility to perform those duties with that you are entrusted.”
However, with the aid of using telling PTI employees to “please make certain there may be no complaint of the brand new Chief and Army Staff,” it’s obvious that regardless of reiterating Jinnah’s perspectives at the supremacy of the legislature, Khan has rightly reckoned which manner the wind is blowing.
It’s clean that similar to Cassius in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Khan too has found out that “the fault … isn’t always in our stars, however in ourselves, that we’re underlings.”
This explains his desperation to fix fences with the equal Rawalpindi that he, until some days ago, become time and again humiliating via the usage of uncharitable phrases like “establishment” and “neutrals.”
Hence, even as a few might also additionally have first rate expectancies from Gen Munir, there are without a doubt no conceivable motives for over-optimism.
Pakistan navy is just too deeply concerned in walking the us of a, and are available what might also additionally, no navy leader might ever want to preside over the dissolution of this big army empire with the aid of using surrendering extra-constitutional powers being exercised with the aid of using Rawalpindi.
Hence, even as the Pakistan navy might also additionally gift the us of a with a new ‘bottle’ each three [or six] years, the wine it carries constantly become, is, and could continue to be antique!
