'General Retired Asim Munir'. 'Imposter posing as army chief'. 'I deem him retired'. It's been five days, and there is still no notification elevating Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir to the newly created post of Chief of Defence Forces (CDF). The vacuum has now been filled by sarcasm as Pakistanis have turned the crisis into a meme fest on social media in what is being viewed as another civilian-military leadership tussle.

The Shehbaz Sharif government was supposed to notify the appointment of Pakistan's first Chief of Defence Forces , a post that will be held alongside that of the army chief, on November 29. On that day, Munir's original three-year term as army chief ended.

The new CDF post would have made Munir the most powerful man in Pakistan , as he would enjoy legal prote

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