“Pakistan’s army returns with more powers than before”, First Post, August 21, 2023:
“It’s the dream cabinet of the decade. At least, so it must seem to Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, a strongman of Pakistan and human rights nightmare for everyone else. After a period of messy political manoeuvring and rumours galore, the new cabinet has been announced, with what everyone in India now knows, the wife of a convicted terrorist as a human rights minister.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic because the announcement of the cabinet was preceded by a parliament session which energetically passed some 108 bills, even as it passed out of existence on 10 August.
That legislation and the cabinet taken together, means that Pakistan is back under martial law, with a very thin democratic veil drawn across for the benefit of the beholder. And not just that. The “Naya’ Pakistan Army is even more powerful than before…..”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
