Source: HT
Pakistan’s Lieutenant-General Raheel Sharif attends a military exercise in Khairpure Tamay Wali in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur district. Reuters
Just after midnight in early October, Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and a coterie of his closest advisers met at his palatial Lahore home and made his toughest decision since coming to power – picking the new army chief. The meeting took place only hours after Pakistan’s all-powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani suddenly announced he would retire in November, scotching rumours he was seeking to extend his tenure.
Once Nawaz Sharif chose Pervez Musharraf also?
… And Z.A. Bhutto had once chosen Zia Ul Haq.