5/ IMPORTANT NOTE: Governor GM Khar asked for the Army to come in Aid to the Civil Power. The Lahore Corps Commander asked Gul Hassan who is reported to have said: 'No help, let the B#@%$&^$ stew in their own juices'. Mr. Khar himself told me that he then called Gul Hassan. 6/
6/ The ADC asked him to hold on, came back on the line and said, 'Sir, the Chief is with guests'. Not to be put off, the Governor called again, this time being told the C-in-C was at dinner. He tried again, this time the answer being that the General was asleep. He tried again 7/
7/ the next day. Sometimes Gul Hassan was in a meeting, sometimes in the bathroom (what is now called the 'RESTROOM' for some reason), sometimes resting. In the meanwhile ZAB was getting impatient and asked Khar if he should speak to Gul Hassan. The Governor said, 'Please 8/
8/ leave it to me'. He tried one more time, and then called out the Jialas to man the traffic posts. He then went to the Police Lines on Empress Road and addressed the police saying the government will do everything in its power to better their pay and perks but that if they 9/
9/ did not return to duty in 24 hours they should consider themselves dismissed from Service and that he would train a new force made up of PPP political workers. The strike broke up the next day WITHOUT any help from the Army which was REQUIRED when ordered to come to the aid10/
10/ of the Civil Power. So, one sees that with the exception of a few Army Generals: Say, like Lt. Gen. Bahadur Sher (who refused agricultural land granted to him by GHQ, writing on the GHQ letter: 'Please allot this to a needy General'!) the vast majority looked down upon 11/
11/ elected leaders.May the Almighty have mercy on our hapless country and may we see fair elections soon so that the badly listing Ship of State can be righted by the true representatives of the people. Enough of #SELECTEDIDIOTS riding on the backs of filthy-mouthed and 12/
12/ ill-read Trolls and Bots! P.S. The Governor of a Province is two positions higher than the C-in-C (COAS) of the Army,yet Gul Hassan REFUSED to even speak to the Governor of the largest province which was in dire trouble facing, possibly, a complete breakdown of law and order!
13/ So, it happened that President ZAB decided to sack the uppity Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan and Air Marshal Rahim Khan (who, incidentally, lived and died in his palatial mansion/estate in Potomac, Maryland, U.S.A. so, Aussie Kayani and Dubaian Mushy aren't the only 14/
14/ ones!) and invited them to the PM's House, Rawalpindi for a 'meeting'. Governor Khar had been summoned from Lahore, and Minister GM Jatoi too who were told to wait in a side room. While the Army and Air Chief's ADC's sat with the President's ADC, and Rahim Khan was asked 15/
16/ to wait in an ante room, Gul Hassan was ushered into the Presidents office. ZAB put a written resignation already typed out and said to Gul Hassan: 'Gul I have decided that you are to be appointed Ambassador to Austria and Rahim your friend, to Spain. Sign this and go 17/
18/ with Mustafa to Lahore while we get your Agrement's sorted out'. Gul Hassan is said to have turned white and spluttered 'But Sir I have to see my ADC, go to my office, I have to issue my farewell Order'. ZAB is reported to have said,'All in good time, just sign this'!19/
19/ Gul Hassan with trembling hands signed his resignation letter. Rahim Khan was then ushered in and signed on the dotted line without a whimper.Governor Khar then entered and asked Gul Hassan and Rahim Khan to come along. Gul Hassan said nothing in ZAB's presence but 20/
20/ once outside began to ask to see his ADC; 'I don't have any clothes'...'I must go to GHQ' etcetera. Khar guided him to the car... ! So it came to pass that with Jatoi shitting bricks in the passenger's seat, the young Governor driving, they sped to Lahore covering the 150 21/
21/ mile trip in under 3 hours!! In the meanwhile General Tikka Khan was appointed COAS, went to GHQ, and issued his Order of the Day. So came to an end of the uppity Gul Hassan Khan's Commander in Chiefy. When they got to Lahore, Khar said to the two he did not have any 22/
22/ pyjama suits but he did have shalwar kameezs which were provided to the two, of course along side the various luxuries and libations to be found in high houses. Because of ZAB's excellent contacts with foreign governments the Agrements for the two came within days 23/
23/ and they were dispatched to their ambassadorial assignments where they both served until 1977...As a soldier, I have to say that I write all of this with a very heavy heart! Our forces commanders should be treated with utter respect because they keep us safe and put their 24/
24/ very lives on the line for us. BUT if they treat the majority of us, the 'Bloody Civilians' like dirt and usurp our right to elect our representatives freely without coercion, and without the 'Agriculture' Department thrashing and threatening democratic candidates we will 25/
25/ react badly and uncivilly. Let's face it, please. How many Generals TODAY will place their hands on their hearts and swear to the Almighty Lord that Election 2018 was not blatantly stolen by THEM? How many of our Generals will say they do NOT look away when #SELECTED 26/
26/ #SELECTED @ImranKhanPTI makes egregious and corrupt decisions to help his partymen? How many of our Generals support the policy of #Disappearing people without charge, for years? How many of them are happy to see grieving mothers and sisters and daughters cry out for 27/
27/ their loved ones to be charged in a Court of Law so that they know their loved one is ALIVE? For don't Generals have mothers and sisters and daughters? Are their hearts made of stone? Are they not human? Even animals don't behave like this. Even they kill and eat other 28/
28/ lesser animals when they are hungry: they do not kill and maim for fun...PLEASE Gernail Sahiban: Please Un-Disappear the Disappeared...There is so much to be said, such as the fact that we are all one, we are ALL of us Pakistanis, that the need is for ALL of us to come 29/
29/ together as one, but I am drained of all emotion. P.S. NEVER consider yourselves above other Pakistanis please: that REALLY angers 'one' to use @javedjabbar45 's words. Which reminds me: Do please withdraw his name as Balochistan's representative on the ECC. It is SO 30/
30/ APPARENT what the purpose is!!
31/ Indeed, if the Constitutional orders of an elected President and an elected Governor can be cast aside by you so cavalierly and with contempt you will be pilloried...!
32/ Also do you Gentlemen agree that NAB should shut up people for months and years without charge and with NO recourse to Higher Courts?
