New Delhi: Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir is just one step away from becoming the most powerful man in his country, officially. Six months after Operation Sindoor, Pakistan tabled the 27th Constitutional Amendment in the Senate, effectively giving lifetime status and constitutional protection to Munir apart from handing him unilateral command of the armed forces.

Officials have cited this promotion only the second (after 1959, when Ayub Khan was made Field Marshal) in Pakistan’s history as justification for formally recognising such lifetime ranks in law.

If enacted, the amendment would also abolish the office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee on 27 November, the day the current CJCSC General Sahir Shamshad Mirza is scheduled to retire

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