Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will only have one criterion for the army chief’s appointment: maintaining Pakistan’s impenetrable defence and taking the military’s professionalism to a higher standard.
“We have to do the army chief’s appointment on a professional, instead of political, basis.”
Iqbal said the issue was a “routine appointment” and speculation should be avoided on the matter.
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