Pakistan’s Khan ‘Calling the Shots’ With Army Support, Aide Says
- ‘No conflict between the civilian government and the military’
- ‘Fuhrer Modi’ in India threatening Pakistan, Mazari says
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is “calling the shots” while the military is playing a supporting role as the government confronts challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic to threats from neighboring India, a government minister said in a statement.
The remarks by Shireen Mazari, the minister for human rights in Khan’s cabinet, came in response to a Bloomberg News report this week detailing the military’s heightened profile in battling the virus in Pakistan, the most infected nation in Asia after India. Any notion the military was in charge “seems based more on hearsay than facts and an arrogant ignorance,” she said.