Pakistan set to announce new military chief’s identify in two days, says Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has mentioned the nation’s subsequent Army chief could be determined within the subsequent two days.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 19, 2022 08:29 IST

By India Today Web Desk: With Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa retiring on November 29, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has mentioned the nation’s subsequent Army chief could be determined within the subsequent two days.

Speaking to Geo News, Sanaullah mentioned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had accomplished the method and can carry it to paper in two days’ time.

“I believe the prime minister has completed this process (of consultation about the army chief appointment) and will bring it to paper, today or tomorrow or the next two days,” he mentioned.

He mentioned session didn’t imply giving somebody the proper to dictate phrases because it was the prerogative and proper of the prime minister to nominate the Army chief.

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Of late, the appointment of the military chief within the nuclear-armed nation has attracted world consideration because of the job description of the publish.

The appointment of a successor to the Army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, is an administrative matter.

Under the regulation, the incumbent prime minister is empowered to pick out any one of many high three-star generals. But politically, it means putting in somebody who might pull the strings and even decide the destiny of the one who appointed him.

The energy of the military chief flows not from the canon of any statute ebook however from the cannons of metal and hearth; this energy is historic and never constitutional. Still, it’s a actually arduous energy.

Sanaullah additionally mentioned that any additional delay within the appointment of the brand new military chief wouldn’t be acceptable.

He additionally urged Geo News anchorman Shehzad Iqbal to keep away from additional questioning on the difficulty as “this is a matter of a day or two” and extra probes would result in pointless hypothesis.

He additionally confirmed contacts with some leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, together with former defence minister Pervaz Khattak, former international minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and former info minister Fawad Chaudhry, and termed them as leaders with political sense.

He mentioned that the purpose of the PTI’s march to Islamabad was the military chief’s appointment, reasonably than snap elections.

“The long march is not really present anywhere — it’s only in the media,” he claimed.

With lower than two weeks left for the retirement of General Bajwa, the Pakistan authorities had been searching for to amend an Act of 1952 to have better authority over the appointment and retention of the Army chief.

The deliberate modification of the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) would empower the prime minister to retain an incumbent Army chief with a easy notification reasonably than via a posh constitutional course of which additionally requires the President’s assent, the Dawn newspaper reported.

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Nov 19, 2022