Hence, it is essential to ascertain, as far as possible, if the army’s claim that it is now “apolitical” is true? It will also impact the region, including India. Hence, for it to abandon its latter role would be a most important development in Pakistan’s national life. The Pakistan Army is both a professional and political institution. The role played by the generals in Pakistan’s ongoing political crisis is not entirely clear. It has also stressed that it would be better if everyone left decisions to the judiciary for it is only by following judicial orders that societies prosper. The army has appealed to political parties not to drag it into politics. It is also emphasising that it is “subservient” to the government of the day and it is for the political authority to defend the army’s honour. It is doing so by denying that it is playing a political role at all. For the time being the army, facing an unprecedented barrage of criticism on the social media undoubtedly engineered by Khan’s supporters, is playing the victim card. Former Pakistan prime minister and head of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan has locked horns with his country’s most powerful institution, the army.
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