Command Structure; Imprisoning Imran; Deserting Delhi
Opinion Watch
Command Structure
The Tribune in its Editorial noted that the Inter-services Organisations (Command, Control and Discipline) Bill, which empowers the Commander-in-Chief with greater powers over inter-services organisations (ISOs), to exercise disciplinary and administrative control over the personnel. “Integration and jointness have been the defence buzzwords in recent years, particularly after India got its first Chief of Defence Staff in January 2020,” added the Chandigarh-based daily, noting that the much-awaited military reform of setting up integrated theatre commands may get a boost.
Military reform in India suffers from piecemeal approach. For long it has been argued that the true military reform should begin right from the Ministry of Defence and the wing that’s always headed by babus should first be put on the block.
Imprisoning Imran
Opining on the jailing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, The Asian Age in its Editorial has written: “Any similarities with the Indian situation that the prominent Opposition figure Rahul Gandhi faced might end at the doorstep of the top court across the border”. “Given the volatile history of Pakistan, one of whose Prime Ministers, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was executed on the orders of the top general of the time, Zia-ul-Haq, it becomes hard to believe that the court could first rule that Imran is eligible to be a candidate in the elections this year and then stand by him through to the polling day,” added the New Delhi-based daily.
Pakistani judiciary indeed has a few independent judges, but overall the Islamic nation is doomed with the heady cocktail of the elites partaking in looting the resources of the country in the name of Islam. To expect that Khan will find a Rahul Gandhi like relief may be asking for the moon from the judiciary, which could not safeguard the likes of Zulfikar Ali Butto and his daughter Benazir Bhutto from the murderous mercenaries.
Deserting Delhi
The Economic Times in its Editorial has called upon Delhi Development Authority to make land available in the national capital for green efforts. The business daily commenting on the Delhi High Court exhortation for greening efforts in the city argued that the national capital is losing the forest cover while the compensatory afforestation makes sense for lacking the local ecological sense.
Delhi is increasingly becoming more concrete, and trees are suffocated to deaths with concretes snuffing life out of the roots. That the city is a heat trap and dust and gas chamber, making even youngsters suffer from arthritis, must worry all.
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