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THE COMPLETE capitulation of Pakistani judiciary to the military pressure for condoning its recurrent venturing into power corridors has coincided with a structural suicide of the "Constituency" of Pakistani generals built over the past 45 years (1958-2003).
The Pakistani military, having caused erosion of judicial system, social sector and political representative bodies, is now facing serious threats, both internal and external.
The judiciary of Pakistan might resurrect, the social sector might reemerge as an active service provider in education and health, not the military, senior army officers say.
They see no hope of Pakistani people waging a countrywide struggle for putting in place an effective representative political structure, but agree that the corrupt and unruly managers have caused irreparable damage to the military structure, the breeding ground of generals ruling the country for the last 45 years.
They also agree that most military officers are unable to reconcile with the structural collapse going on in The Forces. Senior military officers now openly discuss fears regarding the base from where the army’s political and mercantile powers originate.
Having no tradition of organized discussion on such sensitive issues, these officers are unable to list the technical and organizational shortcomings that cause structural erosion to the Pakistani military. ...
Having opened up too many fronts like politics, business and regional conflicts while ruling a divergent demography, this military has developed no expertise or instruments to assist in a corrective process of the required scale. ...
They agree that there is a scarce realization even now to think of creating in-built instruments required for a correction process in the backdrop of a perpetual neglect of the military structure over the past 33 years (after cessation of former East Pakistan). ... This and other agencies of the forces were allowed and encouraged to take up jobs like profiling politicians and influential businessmen to manipulate them and force them to fall in line with plans for launching ousters of civilian governments, assisting military coups and entrenching the generals in power etc. ...
In this backdrop with growing intrigues in the top army ranks leading to the murder of Zia ul Haq and then a split of lobbies backing Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif as potential prime ministerial candidates in 1990s, the military structure came to suffer total neglect and a victim to intrigues and manipulation mastered in politics and jihad supervision. ...
But such talent was never available, as almost all the military genius was too busy looking for the unlimited amounts of funds available for unaccountable use in the defence and civilian apparatus in the 1980s-90s.
Whatever talent the army had, was busy developing techniques for grabbing civil authority through manipulation of connections, an activity leaving no room for the best brains of the forces to assist the military structure in sustaining damages that are now visible and imposing.
Some of the senior army officers now see time fast approaching when the losses suffered by the military structure would cause such boisterous implosions that the nation would be demanding more probing a report on it than the one produced by the Hamood ur Rehman Commission. ...
A military structure with wounds of defeat from 1971 to 1999 has proved incapable of learning the lessons it needed, to sustain the already incurred damage in the field of professionalism, collective morality and credibility, both at home and abroad.
Organs of the military like National Defence College etc. ...
"Only a fool would disagree that disaster is a natural outcome of such a vast neglect of the military structure…. ...
This is the price the military structure is now paying for the top-ranking officers’ indulgence in politics and their engagement in unprofessional pursuits.
Approximate Word count = 3040
Approximate Pages = 12.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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