Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had not thought of an extension to the Chief of Staff of the Army Gen of Qamar Replied Bajwa because there was still time for the end, according to media reports on Friday.
Speaking of the issue of extension contracts in Bajwa’s term, Prime Minister Khan said that he enjoyed an unprecedented relationship with military leadership, the Dawn newspaper reported.
“The year of walking has just begun and November far away.
Then why is there a concern about the extension in the term of office of a military head,” the prime minister was quoted as saying in the report.
Khan said that he had so far not think of an extension in the work period of Coas Bajwa.
The 61-year-old child will serve the position of head of the army until November 28, 2022.
Bajwa, a close belief of Khan, is to retire on November 29, 2019 at the end of the original tenure of three years but Prime Minister Khan gave the head of another extension army with the same length, quoting Regional security situation, through notification.
However, the Supreme Court on November 28 suspended the government’s order, observing that there was no law to provide an extension to the ownership of the army’s head.
But the APEX court gave a six-month extension to the Bajwa gene after being guaranteed by the government that the parliament would pass the law on the extension / removal of the head of the military in six months.
The government after the initial doubt secured the support of the main opposition parties and introduced three bills in the National Assembly to prolong the retirement age from 60 to 64 years for the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and chief chief of the staff committee.
Speaking of rumors about the possible agreement between the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) and the military to bring down his government, Khan said he was personally not under any pressure.
Politicians who turned with cricket said that he enjoyed allied support and expressed confidence that his government would resolve his mandate five years to 2023, the report said.