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Some voices of dissent against the paki military coming through. Many more are needed.
"The barrister then said one golf stick costs more than the monthly salary of a labourer. "This is the General's Pakistan on the brink of a formal declaration of default," he wrote on Twitter. Umar echoed the views of most Pakistanis who believe there are two sets of people in the troubled country where one section gets all the privileges while another suffer.
In Pakistan, the government has fixed the minimum wage at Rs 25,000 per month (Rs 7,352 in Indian rupee) for workers. And the price of a golf kit in the country runs into lakhs.
Responding to the barrister's tweet, former Indian Army Chief Ved Malik said these privileges were one reason among others why the Pakistan army won't let go of their hold on politics and power in the country.
In Pakistan, military officers enjoy a lot of privileges. But the one which irks many in the country is that they get a huge chunk of land once they retire from the service.
Ayesha Siddiqa, a leading defence analyst, in her book - Military Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy - writes that Pakistan's army possesses 12 per cent of the country's land, out of which two-thirds is owned by senior officers.
In January this year, former finance minister Miftah Ismail suggested that to meet the demands of the IMF, the government would have to raise the minimum wage from Rs 25,000 to Rs 35,000."