partha wrote:Apparently Bajwa tried very hard till the last minute to get a six months extension with even going as far as threatening a coup. Shahbaz Shariff called his bluff and successfully resisted pressure from his boss in Pindi
Bajwa chickened out and retired in disgrace.
Hopefully Hafiz Munir will show some backbone and restore honor and dignity of the army. Just going by his face, looks like a trouble maker for the civilians so I have high hopes.
partha ji,
bajwa has moved from hors d'oeuvres (his current corpulence bears testimony to the fact) to hors de combat (as his now complete irrelevance in all matters military/govt demonstrate).
He appears to have disastrously misplayed the powerful hand that was once dealt to him on a platter.
He has also been neatly finessed by the deliberately leaked and public revelations of his and his family's property holdings and the sheer extent of their rapidly "acquired wealth" The sheer timing of these lightning bolt strikes against the army chief betrays the intent of his detractors
He could not have been touched without the express approval of the amriki masters because loans from the IMF, many other international agencies including the world bank can be unobtrusively blocked by foggy bottom
One suspects that bajwa's last trips to amrika and cheen would have been an all out effort to drum up support for his continued gainful and uniformed employment. but it seems that his fondly wished for result was not to be.
Like bertie wooster, or was it jeeves who said that a "concatenation of circumstances" seems to have overtaken him and left him rapidly receding in the rearview mirrors of two superpowers apart from pissing off his usual ummah buddies in the gelf.
Modi's forceful brushoff of the entire paki establishment/deepstate has left both bajwa and niazi up the creek without a paddle. The wrong bets that they had placed on the taliban after the amrekis dumped afghanistan and left them in the lurch has driven the pakis right into the greedy hands of the cheeni who now have a virtual choke hold on the pakis.
covid, as well as, post covid fiascos have left the pakis in what can best be described as "a radioactive pariah mulk and a besharam katora state" that no one wants to engage with.
This was bajwa's and niazi's playing field and neither could hack it so both had to go.