I don't see why anyone should object to the Pakistanis cleaning up their ranks. Why is this bad?
I don't see why anyone should object to the Pakistanis cleaning up their ranks. Why is this bad?
Because this is a sign of how bad the Islamist tendencies in Pakistan's army have metastasized into. If you're a student of history, you'll see parallels between this and the slow Islamization of the Iranian armed forces before the Shah was overthrown.
Because Musharraf depends on the support of 4 regional corp commanders to stay in power.No one is sure how SLAMMIC any or all of those 4 are.If one is nutcase,that can cause huge problems for everyone.
Wading thru it all, it would seem that these Sepoys are getting whacked for being too cozy with the Fundamental Islamists. The Pakistani military and civil authorities are in a constant balancing act between radicals who want to be the first 5th century Caliphate with a nuclear capability, and the moderates who simply want a peaceful Western democracy that has it's neighbor, Hindu India, as a smoking, irradiated ashtray from Lahore to Madras...