Pakistan Army Seems The Real Ruler Of The Country

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The all powerful Pakistan army seems to be the real ruler of the country. At least, the recent granting of 3 year extension by the Yusuf Raza Gilani government to the army chief, Gen. Ashfaqu Parvez Kayani gives the impression that the country’s political leadership can be bullied by the army to carry out the latter’s dictats. Kayani got the extension despite being caught discussing the ouster of President Asif Ali Zardari. Syed Hussaini writes in his column in iNewp.com website, “in the aftermath of WikiLeaks exposure of the world’s governments, Gilani was handed enough material and reason to fire Kayani or even have him and his cohorts arrested and prosecuted; but Gilani did not act and instead stayed on his course of appeasement.”

But, this all powerful army is also scared of the Taliban who are growing from strength to strength every day. Only the other day in June this year, there was a terrorist attack on the Karachi Naval Base. The attack on this joint establishment of the Pakistan Navy, Air Force and Army has sharply brought out how the Pakistani military establishment has failed to tackle threats ...
... from terrorist groups who can spring a surprise and attack even such a highly protected place.

Salmaan Taseer, the Punjab Governor who took a courageous stand by opposing the nation's antiquated blasphemy laws and supporting a Catholic woman, Aasia Bibi who was accused of blasphemy, had to sacrifice his life. Taseer was killed by his own security guard Malik Hussein Mumtaz Qadri. Sadly, his brutal assassination was never condemned by Pakistan’s Parliament. Even Gen Kayani did not have the guts to condemn the incident. The country’s only Roman catholic Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was also killed by terrorists for his vocal opposition to blasphemy laws Needless to say that no body in Pakistan, not even the army chief uttered a word of condemnation.

Taseer was, however, killed not just for opposing the blasphemy laws. He was killed for blaming the "Tehrik-i-Taliban Punjab" who are sometimes called the “Punjabi Taliban” of carrying out attacks on mosques, bazaars and police stations in Punjab and killing innocent citizens there. The Punjabi Taliban are a motley group of sectarian militant organizations such as Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HUM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP), all inspired by an intolerant brand of Sunni Islam called Deobandism. In June last year, the leading English daily, Dawn reported under the headline “Punjabi Taliban are a reality : Taseer”, quoting the Governor that the militants of these groups, the natives of towns such as Bahawalpur and Raheem Yar Khan had been attacking places of worship and spilling innocent blood. Since that point of time Taseer was on the hit list of terrorist’s.

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