Their mere presence in a dispensation can lay bare many realities in the scheme of things. They’re at it again, even if in the relatively uncharted territory of there being a split, of sorts, in the family. The General, it appears, was playing a game of Tetris: the PDM fits into the federal government, the PTI in Punjab’s. The new army chief faces an uphill task if he wants to wrest his institution away from the sins that it admits to having been party to. We wish him well, so for him to take stock of the institutional experiences of the recent and not-so-recent past.

Source: Pakistan Today December 07, 2022 03:03 UTC