Pakistan’s Chief Of Army Is Fighting to Keep His Job in Wake of Bin Laden Raid
Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save
his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and junior officers
since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to Pakistani
officials and people who have met the chief in recent weeks.
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who has led the army since 2007, faces such intense
discontent over what is seen as his cozy relationship with the United States
that a colonels’ coup, while unlikely, was not out of the question, said a
well-informed Pakistani who has seen the general in recent weeks, as well as an
American military official involved with Pakistan for many years.
The Pakistani Army is essentially run by consensus among 11 top commanders,
known as the Corps Commanders, and almost all of them, if not all, were
demanding that General Kayani get much tougher with the Americans, even edging
toward a break, Pakistanis who follow the army closely said.
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