We are the kind of people who
worship personalities excessively. Most of us believe that personality or
individual will rescue the system or institution rather than fortifying the
institutions by executing the laws and holding the power of the personalities at
bay.Every Minister, irrespective of any Party when comes into the power keep
harping on the same cliché, ‘Pakistan is still passing through difficult
timesand country is still in state of war’ and spends his tenure praising his
leaders and leadership unconditionally whether there is a great uproar of total
collapse of all state institutions as a result of decades of very poor
decisions.
And, today, afterhaving faced unimaginable and irreparablelosses, most
importantly, the blood-bath of innocent kids and thereafter having observed the
most belligerent and combative measures taken by General RaheelShareef across
the Pakistan even in Afghanistan made people believe that he was the personality
had badly been looked forward so long,who is capable of steering the
crises-ridden nation out of catastrophically unstable situation; so, most
probably everyone longs his extension for next five years at least, in this
critical and alarming situation of our country where corruption and terrorism
are on peak and people from all sphere need him desperately to grow Pakistan
peaceful and prosper state. Admittedly,General Raheel as the chief commander has
been discharging a marvelous job and his performance speaks through results
rather than verbose. He is sincere, dedicated, energetic, good decision maker
andbrave soldier and every politician in Pakistan is miles behind from his high
caliber. Pakistan, surely, is on the right path leading to peace and progress
under his guidance and supervision. He has the courage to eradicate all corrupt
politicians and weed out terrorists; it is for the reason, leaders like
AsifZardari, topped the list of the most corrupt politician in Pakistan like to
see GeneralRaheel Sharif go out of the sight as soon as possible.
Despite all these facts, Gen. Raheel Sharif should be retired at the completion
of his tenure and we should stop worshiping people. Instead, system should be
beefed up. Unfortunatelywe tend to pay enormous respect and importance to the
personalities while forgetting that our action and support is hollowing the
objective of that institution. , we pin our hopes and expectations on
personalities and start believing on conceptions then realities. The nation is
being dragged by few leaders on the name of true democracy. People who are the
soul of these institutions have been leftstranded to suffer then why to depend
on merely handful individuals and what isthe most imperative thing is to
immediately launch a serious effort to build up viable institutions that will
steadily diminish the trend of extension of personalities to lead the Nation.On
the other hand there are so many in-line commanders would have been same
enthusiasm, caliber and sincerity to eradicate extremism and terrorism. The
nation must clean off this misconception thatArmy is barren or something like
this rather it is capable of churning out brilliant commanders. Besides that, an
extension demoralizes the rank and file as others are deprived of the
opportunity to lead. Didextension seekers like Ayub, Yahaya, Zia, Mushraf and
Kayani not deprived their juniors of the opportunity to lead which they
deserved.
The decision of General RaheelShareef clearly shows that he is an upright man
and does not look for his own interest and such a positive and mature response
by army leadership distinctly shows maturity among army circles, because in
world public institute damaged by extension of heads, extension tramples the
incoming talent and prevail the buttering culture within institute. A positive
man is always positive either in army dress or civilian dress. So it is good
decision by general Raheel which shows his loyalty with his profession, country
and open mind for incoming junior generals and all other power-hungry
politicians to express their abilities, also discourage the lust for power.Let’s
get out of paranoia of personalities and try to strengthen the institutions.