In the TFT editorial "ISI has taken over GHQ" Najam Sethi in his immense wisdom says, "intelligence services must consciously be kept at arms length from GHQ because field commanders must not get contaminated or tainted by cloak and dagger operations in grey zones". And then goes on to name a few DGs ISI who were either not given command and 'side lined' to other unimportant staff appointments or were retired prematurely.
The
man doesn't have the basic idea of the postings and placement of
senior army officers and blurts out what comes to his mind randomly.
When he says that the Intelligence Generals must be kept away from the
GHQ so that Field Commanders are not contaminated, does he know that
there are no field commanders in the GHQ except the COAS, who commands
the entire army.
All
others at the GHQ are Staff Officers and Principal Staff Officers
(PSOs), who do not even command the peons (Naib Qasids) of their
offices. Field commanders are in the field and for his easy
understanding they are the Corps Commanders, Divisional Commanders,
Brigade Commanders down to Battalion and Company and Platoon
commanders.
Again,
if we go by his analogy of keeping the DG ISI (Senior most
Intelligence Officer) away from the field, then could he tell us
where did Lt Gen Nadeem Taj go after his being posted out from the
ISI? Well, he was appointed Corps Commander Gujranwala and he did not
contaminate the command in any way. Similarly, there could be many
other examples of the ISI officers being posted to the army Field
Appointments.
Trouble with such pseudo intellectuals (mostly anchor persons) is that they are the Misters 'Know It All'
and can wield their pen on any subject under the sun and that too
authoritatively. Only, what they don't know is their own profession,
where the tuppence of a Suhafi persistently shoves the mic most
rudely and arrogantly into the face of a dignitary much elder and
superior in status and stature to him.
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