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Pak army’s role limited to defence in country’s interest: Saad
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N MNA Khwaja Saad Rafique has said that Pak Army’s role if remains restricted to defence, would be in the larger interest of the country, nation and the army, Geo News reported Monday.Khwaja Saad Rafique said this in a handout issued from PML-N media cell in response to the statement of Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas today.
Maj Gen Athar Abbas said that the usage of funds in civilian departments should be streamlined instead of criticizing the defence budget.
He said that several agencies from some hostile countries have been working to create the gap between the army and public. Anti-Pakistan elements are trying to prove that army is a burden on the national development by criticizing the armed forces. He said that under well-planned conspiracies, misleading propaganda is being proliferated about the high expenses of Pakistan Army.
He said that to ascertain the size of the army is also government’s job. Army has to prepare itself according to defence capabilities of the enemy. No army in the world can disclose its development budget to the public, he said.“If civilian government consider that they could diminish the perils through negotiation with India, then the reduction in army could be taken place”, he added.
Khwaja Saad Rafique some points of the Pak army are not acceptable to the pro-democratic people. “It is a job of the parliament and not the Army to assess the budget allocation and its use for the civilian departments,” he added.
He said professional and strong Army was Pakistan’s need, it still is and will always be, but the role of the Army and its budget allocation cannot be exempted from criticism.
“A handful of authoritative generals caused greater damage to the state of Pakistan and the Army than the foreign foes,” Khwaja Saad Rafique asserted.
He said that each Army rule only broadened the rift between the national and the Army.
Courtesy www.geo.tv