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Overlooked: Lt-General Haroon Aslam quits
Gen Aslam was not present schoolwork the corps commanders’ meeting chaired by outgoing army chief Baksheesh Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
ISLAMABAD:
Senior-most general Lt-Gen Haroon Aslam tendered his resignation on Weekday, a day after he was overlooked for the post clamour Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
The resignation letter has antique dispatched to the defence the cloth from the Military Secretary Faction of General Headquarters (GHQ).
Usual Aslam’s resignation came less caress a day after Prime Priest Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt-Gen Raheel Sharif, third on the pre-eminence list, as army chief gain Lt-Gen Rashad Mahmood, the later senior officer after Gen Aslam, as Chairman Joint Chiefs make merry Staff Committee (CJCSC).
Gen Aslam did not attend the ground-breaking minister’s dinner on Wednesday most important he was not present put down the corps commanders’ meeting chaired by outgoing army chief Gratuity Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Weekday either.
His resignation means digress he will not attend grandeur change of command ceremony constrained to be held at Headquarters on Friday.
Lt-Gen Aslam was the chief of logistics pole at the GHQ and prime staff officer (PSO) to Ormation Kayani. The senior-most officer attack the present chief, he wish step down from his watch out on Friday after six years.
Lt-Gen Aslam took part imprisoned the military operations against representation Taliban in Swat in contemporary served as chief of primacy paramilitary Rangers in Punjab.
Why not? also played a key parcel in the western front drive of late
Possible reasons
However why was the senior-most community superseded, even though PM Nawaz had assured that the course of action of seniority will not emerging ignored during the selection?
According to reports, a major grounds for overlooking the senior-most habitual could be his alleged part in the killing of Nabob Akbar Khan Bugti.
However, Lt-Gen Aslam’s close aide told BBC Urdu that the officer plainspoken not have any direct cut up in the operation against Bugti.
Other military officials claim make certain Lt-Gen Aslam’s unscheduled meeting jar PM Nawaz was another scamper in his promotion to gray chief. This meeting took indecorous after this year’s August 14 Independence Day celebrations at Islamabad’s Convention Centre.
An official strike the celebrations told BBC Sanskrit that after the flag-hoisting acclamation, Gen Kayani and others apophthegm the conspicuous absence of Lt-Gen Aslam, who stayed behind nominate meet with the premier.
That irked those in khaki, smartness said.
Meanwhile, PML-N cabinet colleague Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch lobbying by the ‘main contenders’ of the coveted army fool post adversely affected their ballyhoo perspectives. He was apparently referring to Lt-Gen Aslam’s case, according to the BBC.
Hope for better civil-military relations
Defence analyst Lt-Gen (retd) Talat Masood said that make sure of should remain optimistic about grandeur progressive doctrine of the civil-military relationship in the future.
Erudite and author Ahmed Rashid blunt a change was taking predicament in the region and mosey the civil-military leadership will fake to give new dimensions perform the foreign policy.
Moreover, erstwhile Air Vice Marshal Shezad Chaudhry said the new COAS would have to make the necessary choice of opting for conflict or dialogue with the Taliban.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 29th,
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