shiv wrote:A comment on the situation in crapistan.
It seems to me that the army is unwilling to take over. That means that the Pakistan army is dsplaying the behaviour of an army in a more normal country.
Why would the army do that?
1. The Pakarmy has suddenly become democratic
or
2. The army feels that is does not enjoy popular public support - few are calling for the army to take over, in fact people are rallying behind DImmi and Friar TuQ
or
3. The army is waiting for things to get worse - in other words the army does not feel that things are bad now. Naturally. No governance in Pakistan is the normal state of affairs.
Unfortunately the situation is fluid. If the DImmi Tucker dance fizzles out like PAF, then it's back to square 1.
The puki army is keen to cherry pick the roles it wants to completely control for itself. They also want the civilians to willingly hand over these roles, hence the murder charges and continued troubles for the shariff brothers. With murder charges filed against them, the ever ready hangman's rope becomes a control to be used at will. The noose now comes off musharaf's neck and goes firmly around shariff's neck.
They want to leave garbage collection and mundane facilities management to the civilians as the generals don't want to sully their fastidious gloved hands.
Of course, they will appropriate a lions share of the resources for themselves to fund their elite life styles and also the oncoming afghani and cashmere campaigns and leave the aam paki aadmi to the tender mercies of the civilian pakjabis as all blame will be placed on the civilians and all credit will go to the puki army. They are jittery about the uncertain end game playing out in afghanistan and don't want anyone queering their pitch. The chinese, the iranians and other powers are already waiting to make their moves depending on what the amrekis do in afghanistan. The pakis don't want to become bit players here.
The pukis will covertly open up on two fronts against India both in aghanistan as well as cashmere so as to weaken India's will to stay on in afghanistan. cashmere is not going anywhere but afghanistan may slip out of their grasp, hence most of their efforts will be focused in their national obsession, the strategic depth gambit.
It only remains to be seen if the amrekis will fund the pakis in afghanistan as demanded by the pakis and to what extent.
IMVHO, and to protect themselves, the amrekis will end up being blackmailed by the puki army and will fund them in afghanistan for years to come, throwing India, as usual, to the wolves.
sadly we are tactical players but the pakis are strategic players.
One would have thought that the amrekis, after all these years would have honed their diplomatic skills, rather than perfecting their patented bull in the china shop approach.
PM Nawaz it seems will have to go. How and when, let’s see.
