I was quite amused with the story that someone in Pakistan has gone to its Supreme Court seeking the conferment of the rank of Field Marshal to its outgoing Army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif. Couldn't help but laugh at the news item because either the litigant has been propped up by the army chief, himself, to say something that he desperately wants the government to do for him or it's out of pure ignorance about the whole issue because of the following:-
(a) the country bestows this 'honorary' rank taking into consideration the individual's outstanding
contributions towards national security.
(b) continuing with the same logic, how can the court award the rank?
(c) and what has been his contribution? Are they one of these or all of them, put together:-
(i) Mutilating fallen Indian soldiers and deliberately, defy Geneva conventions on the
subject.
(ii) Violate ceasefire on the Indo-Pak LoC, almost continuously, to distract his countrymen
from raising doubts about his army's capabilities in the face of the surgical strikes,
carried out by the Indian Army, on terror camps, within Pakistani territory.
(iii) The disarray in terror funding caused by the ongoing economic drive in India. I mean,
is he claiming success in forcing the Indian government to take tough measures in the
wake of pumping in counterfeit money into India's markets by the ISI, with his
connivance?
The point I'm trying to make is that for whatever reasons cited above, if at all he's made a Field Marshal, it will be an unsettling thing for him because deep within his heart, he'd remember that it was for ignominy, inefficiency and sloth on his part! Not to talk of the colossal loss of value of the coveted rank when worn by a person, like him, who doesn't have the persona to carry its aura!
Tailpiece.
These are all cheap stunts being carried out by a 'small man' to remain in power knowing fully well that his prime minister is a weak man, buffeted by corruption charges. What he seems to forget is the ambition of his subordinates who covet his chair and who will not let their chances to fizzle out due to their uninspiring superior's unbridled ambition!
(a) the country bestows this 'honorary' rank taking into consideration the individual's outstanding
contributions towards national security.
(b) continuing with the same logic, how can the court award the rank?
(c) and what has been his contribution? Are they one of these or all of them, put together:-
(i) Mutilating fallen Indian soldiers and deliberately, defy Geneva conventions on the
subject.
(ii) Violate ceasefire on the Indo-Pak LoC, almost continuously, to distract his countrymen
from raising doubts about his army's capabilities in the face of the surgical strikes,
carried out by the Indian Army, on terror camps, within Pakistani territory.
(iii) The disarray in terror funding caused by the ongoing economic drive in India. I mean,
is he claiming success in forcing the Indian government to take tough measures in the
wake of pumping in counterfeit money into India's markets by the ISI, with his
connivance?
The point I'm trying to make is that for whatever reasons cited above, if at all he's made a Field Marshal, it will be an unsettling thing for him because deep within his heart, he'd remember that it was for ignominy, inefficiency and sloth on his part! Not to talk of the colossal loss of value of the coveted rank when worn by a person, like him, who doesn't have the persona to carry its aura!
Tailpiece.
These are all cheap stunts being carried out by a 'small man' to remain in power knowing fully well that his prime minister is a weak man, buffeted by corruption charges. What he seems to forget is the ambition of his subordinates who covet his chair and who will not let their chances to fizzle out due to their uninspiring superior's unbridled ambition!
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