prime minister of pakistan Imran Khan According to a media report on Friday, he has said that he has not yet thought of extension of the tenure of Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa as there is still time for his term to end.
Talking about the controversial issue of extension in Bajwa’s tenure, Prime Minister Khan said that he enjoyed an unprecedented relationship with the military leadership, Dawn newspaper reported.
“The current year has just begun and November is far away. Then why worry about extension of the tenure of Army Chief,” the Prime Minister was quoted as saying in the report.
Khan said that he had not yet thought of extending the tenure of COAS Bajwa.
The 61-year-old will serve as the Chief of Army Staff till November 28, 2022.
Khan’s close aide, Bajwa, was due to retire on November 29, 2019, at the end of his original three-year term, but Prime Minister Khan, through a notification, sent the army chief to another of the same length, citing the regional security situation. Extended.
However, the Supreme Court on November 28 suspended the government order saying there was no law to extend the tenure of the Army Chief. But the top court gave General Bajwa an extension of six months after the government assured him that Parliament would pass a law on extension/re-appointment of an army chief within six months.
The government, after initial hesitation, won the support of the main opposition parties and introduced three bills in the National Assembly to raise the retirement age from 60 to 64 years for the chief of staff and joint chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Staff Committee.
On rumors of a possible pact between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the army to topple his government, Khan said he was not personally under any kind of pressure.
The cricketer-turned-politician said he has the support of allies and expressed confidence that his government will complete its five years by 2023, the report said.
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