source: TOI on Line
The Pakistan government is unhappy with Kayani, currently on a three-year extension, and Pasha, who received a one-year extension in service last year.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government is seriously contemplating the removal of powerful army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI head Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha against the backdrop of a standoff on a memo alleging an army plot to seize power, according to a media report on Monday.
The government’s “extreme unhappiness” with Kayani, currently on a three-year extension, and Pasha, who received a one-year extension in service last year, is an “open secret”, The News daily quoted its sources as saying.
The two generals have been held responsible for forcing Pakistan to adopt an “extremely harsh stance” towards the US after last month’s NATO air strike, the report said.
They also “adopted a diabolically opposing stance to that of the government” on the alleged memo that sought US help to stave off a possible military coup in Pakistan in May-2011.