Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

He was/is/will remain ‘THE QUAID-E-AZAM’ ... (Unfortunately we haven’t had one coming close to him by 7000 miles in the last seven decades and may not have  in next 700). 

There is a proverb ... “THE FIRST STEP TOWARD GREATNESS IS TO BE HONEST” ... and he was HONESTY PERSONIFIED ...

Pakistani Rulers (Civ/Mil) starting from GM-Sikandar Mirza duo down to present dispensation have displayed a conspicuous tendency to go for 'PERSONAL COMFORT/LIKING and TRACTABILITY of the selected Men/Women' while making the appointments of Heads of the Institutions, Members of the Cabinet and other Constitutional/Administrative bodies, conveniently sacrificing Seniority, Neutrality, Merit and the Best National Interest ... (Often regretting the decisions later on).

Appointing Authority consciously/sub c wants  selectees to be ever obedient, pliant and obliged, forgetting that they have a responsibility towards their Institutions. When 'For-Granted' sense makes the Chooser transgress the lines, reality dawns and self created phantoms start setting ... result - confrontations.    

In the case of Service Heads, it is pertinent to note that whatever their seniority amongst the contenders, they are top of the line professionals because the system of progression in the Armed Forces is very transparent, highly objective and totally merit based ... (Exceptions may be there but exceptions are never a rule).

GPM was a military professional par excellence right through his brilliant career. He was accessible, readily mixing with his subordinates (at time going way beyond...) with enormous camaraderie. He might not have been very ambitious because his penchant for 'Recreational Activities'  could put him in trouble which I am certain, must have been the case. 

After premature retirement of GJK, he was preferred over two equally brilliant commanders who preceded him in seniority. Not going into the details of 'Falling-Off', his deposition while he was in the air after an official visit to Sri Lanka put the Army Command in a quandary ... Options were:-

1.  To let him die a death of helplessness along with other passengers as the plane carrying him was running out of fuel and the orders were, 'NOT TO LET IT LAND', or allow diversion of the air craft to an enemy airport.   
2. To act and save the precious lives and head of their Institution. 

The then Army High Command went for the second option... and ...  that entire action was declared Kosher by the Highest Court of the Land. Question is what do the Paras 55 and 56 of the present verdict do with that SCP Decision?

All Pillars are important, therefore, Lines have to be refreshed and if required redefined. Areas of Operations with limits reviewed. No transgression, no interference. Merit based appointments. Accountability supervised performances. Transparent actions and voluntary admissions.  Evaluation and scrutiny incorporated actions. Polarisation must end. Corrupt practices be buried. Old is gold but it may be time to give way to new so political leadership must automatically retire/be replaced after eight to ten years. FairPlay, Values and Respect be the hallmark ... 

ریاستِ مدینہ تبھی بن سکتی ہے جب رہنمائ اور اطاعتِ کلیہ مدینے والے آقاصلی اللہ علیہ  وسلم  کی ہو ۔ نہیں تو سب بولہبی ہے

... and when you judge between people - judge with justice. Excellent is that which Allah instructs you. Indeed, Allah is ever Hearing and Seeing. AL-NISA [4] : 58.

• Highly revered and honest to the bones honourable Chief Justice Iftikhar Ch (Retd) under whose charge the treason case was registered had no personal axe to grind against the hence incapacitated Commander In Chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces?

• Ruling Party of 2013 and Judiciary was not driven by any streak of vengeance/vendetta and that due process of the law took place as per the Quranic Injunctions, ".... and DO NOT LET THE HATRED OF A PEOPLE PREVENT YOU FROM BEING JUST ... AL-MAIDA [5] : 8.?

• The Constitutional Violation committed on November 3 2007 was bigger than any other violation since 1950s?

• Will something happen to 'Abettors' in this case and other Violators starting from Ghulam Muhammad, Sikandar Mirza, along with indemnifying Judges wearing the Gown of Doctrine of Necessity from Munir to Ifthikhar Ch (all others included? 

• What about the politicians who joined hands with the Violators and sucked the last ounce of blood from the economic veins of the country from ...1958 to 2007?

• 'JUSTICE IS CONSCIENCE' - what about hundreds sitting in the August Houses and Revered Offices of the country WHO WERE WITH THE ACCUSED? 

They definitely are seeing but are they SUPERVISING too, the unhinging of the Values of Life in the Life-Less Society? 

Are they waiting to act when everything good is torn apart by the lawless misadventures of the influentials? 

Are they in a state of DENIAL, INERTIA or DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE?

Favouritism, selective justice, and expediencies of any kind. Application of Law must be FOR ALL and not for the down trodden of the society only.

Four-Tiered Education System be abolished immediately. Curriculum be devised which asks the student to think, infer and evolve ... TO BE A COMPASSIONATE HUMAN BEING, TRUE MUSLIM and PATRIOTIC PAKISTANI. 

Whimsical and Merit-Hating Selection System for induction of the operators of the State Apparatus. Merit only shall grant the courage to act swiftly and be a State-Servant and not of some DON. 

{Pity the Dictators who were product of THE BEST selection system of the country (hardly few hundreds out of thousands top of the line applying youth get the recommendation for induction) but when it came to them to select the future rulers of the country, they fell for sycophancy, personal lust to preserve, comfort to prevail and hence unleashed the corrupt on the hapless nation.}

Decades before Lincoln became president, he was a Captain leading a Company in Black Hawk War in 1832. His performance was so lacklustre that by end of the War he was demoted to his rightful place - A Simple Soldier. He, however, had one quality ... TO LEARN ... and a failed army captain he might have been but his pursuit to learn made him into one of the finest US Presidents (and Commander In Chief of the Forces) of all time.