Decision on extension of tenure for Pakistan Army chief can wait, says PM

Friday, 7 January 2022newsdesk

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he has not yet thought about an extension to Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure as there is still time for his term to end, according to a media report on Friday.

New Delhi, 07 January 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, Talking about the contentious issue of the extension in Bajwa’s tenure, Prime Minister Khan said that he enjoyed an unprecedented relationship with the military leadership, the Dawn newspaper reported. “The current year has just started and November is far away. Then why there is worry about extension in the tenure of the army chief,” the prime minister was quoted as saying in the report. Khan said that he had so far not thought about extension in the tenure of COAS Bajwa. The 61-year-old will serve the post of Army chief till November 28, 2022. Bajwa, a close confidant of Khan, was to retire on November 29, 2019 at the end of his three-year original term but Prime Minister Khan gave the Army chief another extension of same length, citing regional security situation, through a notification.

Source - The Indian Express