PAKISTAN ARMY AS POLITICAL AGENDA -VOA TV (ENGLISH)

PAKISTAN ARMY AS POLITICAL AGENDA

DR. FAROOQ HASNAT
ADJUNCT SCHOLAR
MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE
WASHINGTON, D.C.

VOA TV -ENGLISH
NOVEMBER 15, 2007

TEXT:
The emergency rule in Pakistan has triggered widespread street protests. The government has been using the Army, along with police and paramilitary forces, to quell the demonstrations. Some analysts assert, because of that, the Army is too distracted to fight Islamic insurgency in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Farooq Hasnat, a scholar of Pakistani origin at the Middle East Institute in Washington, says that General Musharraf has weakened the army and hurt its morale by using it for his political agenda.
"It seems that because the army has been involved so much in the civilian affairs that the army has lost some of its professionalism," says Hasnat. "We witnessed that when the army went in Waziristan (to fight against pro-Taliban militants). We saw that 1,000 soldiers were killed. In Swat also their performance was less than desired."
Hasnat says he believes there is dissension in the army over General Musharraf's crackdown. "There must be certain groups who might not agree with General Musharraf's policy vis-a-vis clamp down on his own people and the way he came harsh -- the manner in which he violated human rights of the Pakistani public."

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• PAKISTAN
• MUSHARRAF
• BENAZIR_BHUTTO
• MARTIAL_LAW
• ARMY
• PAKISTAN_ARMY
• FAROOQ_HASNAT

[Ihack4free]

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[yahoovisitor]

At Pakistan illegal implementation of law is now a custom.Islamabad is nowadays under constitutional act #144 which bans forming of procession at any point. What does that indicate? Musharraf, Zardari and their team of bastards are too afraid of people and the organizations like lawyers and political parties protesting against the outlaw govt and illegal implementation of inflation & law in Pakistan not letting law being implemented or judiciary made functional accordingly.But can they survive?

[tooharsh]

so wat if it has political agenda! why there is kharish in your ghand?

[wikica100]

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[arrivingdesignation]

musharaf harami for ppp and JUI looters.

musharaf musharaf kutta kutta ..musharaf ki army kuttay ki army.

[lolz298]

totally agree with u jamal.........but lemme tell u the truth......musharaf kuti ka bacha hai....asani se nahin jaye ga..........is ki bond marni parey gi........painchod musharaf.......if u dont quit now then teri ma ko lun de don ga

[jamal385]

fuck musharaf

he is destroying not only pakistan but the most propesional ARMY force of the world i.e pakistani army