Pakistan Army is now an echo chamber â look at what it did to ex-ISI chief Asad Durrani
The ex-ISI chief was punished not for disclosing any secret, but for analysing the tantalising event of the 2011 American operation in Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden.
Ayesha Siddiqa 15 December, 2020 1:17 pm IST Text Size:
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When Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck returned to India in 1943 as the commander-in-chief of the military, one of his goals was to âIndianiseâ the force while ensuring high levels of professionalism. Though the demands of performing in the Second World War obfuscated his plans to move away from limiting recruitment to the âmartial racesâ, he developed a culture of professionalism that made it imperative for the armed forces to analyse every operation, including failures, for future benefit.