Parliament and the Army

PM Gilani very rightly said, "Nobody is above the law and all the institutions are subservient to the parliament."  He was hinting at the army for taking up a position on Memogate different to that of the government. Generals Kiyani and Pasha say that memo is a fact and its authorship should be probed into.  Whereas the ruling elite dubs it to be a non-issue and that the government had nothing to do with it.  If it is so, why not let the higher judiciary probe into it and prove the generals to be wrong?  And, if the memo is a fact then why should someone ask a third power to rein in an army subservient to the parliament? Why can’t the parliament do the needful itself?

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)