RAWALPINDI (The Thursday Times) — Sabiq army chief General (retd) Abdul Waheed Kakar, jinhon ne 1993 se 1996 tak Pakistan Army ki qiyadat ki, Rawalpindi mein inteqal kar gaye hain, fauj ke media wing ne Peer ko kaha.
Chief of Defence Forces aur Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir aur Pakistan Army ke tamam ranks ne un ke inteqal par gehre dukh ka izhar kiya, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) ke bayan ke mutabiq.
"CDF aur Pakistan Army ke tamam ranks marhoom general ke numaya fauji career, qiyadat aur Pakistan Army ke liye un ki anmol khidmat ko khiraj-e-tehseen pesh karte hain," bayan mein kaha gaya. "Pakistan Army sogwar khandan ke gham mein shareek hai aur dili taziyat pesh karti hai."
Siyasi bohran ke dauran army chief
Kakar January 1993 se January 1996 tak chief of army staff rahe. Apni muddat ke dauran, unhon ne us waqt ke Sadr Ghulam Ishaq Khan aur us waqt ke Wazir-e-Azam Nawaz Sharif par istifa dene ke liye dabao dala, jis ke nateeje mein 1993 ke aam intikhabat hue, jin mein Benazir Bhutto wazir-e-azam bani.
Woh teen saal ki muddat khatm hone par retire ho gaye.
Khiraj-e-aqeedat
Sadr Asif Ali Zardari ne Kakar ke inteqal par dukh ka izhar kiya aur khandan ko taziyat pesh ki, un ke daftar ne kaha. "Sadr dua karte hain ke sogwar khandan ko yeh nuqsan sabr ke saath bardasht karne ki taqat ata ki jaye," bayan mein kaha gaya.
Wazir-e-Azam Shehbaz Sharif ne marhoom general ki musalah afwaj ke liye "anmol khidmat" ko khiraj-e-tehseen pesh kiya, sarkari broadcaster PTV ne report kiya.
Naib wazir-e-azam aur Wazir-e-Kharja Ishaq Dar ne X par kaha ke woh Kakar ke inteqal par "gehre dukh" mein hain. "Pakistan aur Pakistan Army ke liye un ki numaya khidmat ala tareen ehtiram ke saath yaad rakhi jayegi," Dar ne likha.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ke chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan ne Kakar ki "peshawarana lagan aur us tareeqe jis se unhon ne apne qaumi farayez ada kiye" ki tareef karte hue kaha ke woh "hamesha izzat aur ehtiram ke saath yaad rakhe jayenge".
