@imranahmad131
Agree with u on most points there.

@game on
Why SHOULD'NT the military play as an on-looker. You know, instead of always seeing things from the same old, boring perspective- one shud try and think from out of the box. Politics, like any other science needs and invites new ideas and concepts. If there can be a system of checks and balances in the US constitution, where the three wings of government keep a check on each other- why cant we include the military in the scheme of things? We shud move on from the now, much misused notion of government and democracy. Perhaps if we follow such a system, and provided a government fails to deliver (not unlike the present one), the military would be required to come in tandem with other branches of the state (eg, the judiciary) in order to decide if a coup is the need of the hour. I mean, do we honestly think the present state should continue beyond devastation? Now really?

Secondly, referring to the question put forward for Imranahmed; in USA, the CIA is a separate organization, not really coming under the military. However they often work closely with each other. But in countries like Pakistan and Israel, their spook agencies are almost synonymous with their military. This is why we use them interchangeably when we talk of Pakistan military's/ ISI's role in A-tan.