Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi condemns Imran Khan and the entire PTI for speaking against General Qamar Javed Bajwa, calls them Ehsan Faramosh, slams Imran Khan for speaking against Bajwa while he sat next to him.
Before that Pervaiz Elahi Chief Minister of Punjab disclosed that former army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had mugged the PML-Q to support PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi’s remarks come on the heels of Imran Khan’s accusation earlier that General Bajwa was playing a double game.
Imran Khan said he had committed a big mistake by granting General Bajwa an extension and accused the former army chief Bajwa of engaging in double games, double-speaking, mixed messages, and more.
Imran Khan alleged that General Bajwa had denied everything when asked about the establishment of contacts with the then-opposition. Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi also remarked, that appeared less confident about earlier polls and acknowledged there is no system available under which we call for general elections and they happen before time.
He further said that the coalition government has its tenure until next August 2023 and is to be seen how prudently it will tread in these critical times. General Bajwa is not the only army chief who squandered his prestige by sticking around for longer than he ought to have.
Others before him who also overstayed their tenure suffered more or less similar fates, leaving it to other institutions to pay the price for their hubris. Indeed if the army is serious about the recent commitment to detaching itself from domestic politics, it should, as a starting step, encourage a legislative initiative to do away with this practice completely.
The civilian leadership must take the opportunity to bury this harmful precedent rather than find new ways to enforce it, such as the amendments to the Army Act that were recently being considered.
