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| Qazi wants appointment of full-time chief of army staff... |
| 2002-06-10 |
| Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad stated on Saturday that in order to meet the Indian challenge it is essential to have a full-time chief of the army staff and all army officers posted in civil institutions should be withdrawn and assigned professional duties. Withdrawing the army officers opens the spaces for hacks, preferably from the religious parties. As COS, Perv controls the army; even if a new chief is on his side, that still takes the direct power one remove from him, and leaves the opportunity to turn the new guy. Qazi's pretty slick, gotta admit it. Speaking to leaders of different political parties at a dinner hosted by his party's deputy chief, Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, at his residence, he warned that if the country retreated from its stand on Kashmir under US influence and Indian pressure, it would be pressured to dismantle its nuclear capability. Actually, that would be a fine idea... Referring to the gravity of the on going crisis, the JI chief recalled the statement of the chief of the Indian army that he was awaiting the signal to open the war front while Indian naval fleet had moved towards Karachi. But due to incompetence of the government the atmosphere in the country [Pakistan] did not reflect that it was facing a grave crisis threatening its security, he said. And he's really cheesed that the crisis seems to be receding... Qazi Ahmad advised the government to take initiative and said it was the duty of all political and religious parties to unite to face the situation. He said war could not be stopped by begging for peace. Keep in mind that to Qazi, war is the desired end. A few hundred thousand corpses don't matter, as long as the end result is a theocracy with him in charge. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |