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Pakistan SC questions government on top generals taking up foreign employment
Updated On: 01 August, 2018 05:39 PM IST | Islamabad | PTI
On the issue of dual citizenship, the defence secretary said the armed forces do not recruit dual citizens and any dual citizen accepted by the army has to give up their foreign nationality
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Supreme Court of Pakistan
Pakistan's Supreme Court today asked the government how it allowed two former top army generals to take up jobs abroad despite a law barring officers from accepting employment for two years post-retirement, according to a media report. Hearing a case of dual nationalities of Pakistan government employees, Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar, observed that former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif and Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General (retd) Shuja Pasha had found employment abroad within two-years after retirement, Geo News reported.
After retirement in 2016, Gen. Sharif left for Riyadh to head a military alliance of Muslim countries led by Saudi Arabia. According to Pakistani media reports, after retirement in 2012, the former ISI chief worked with a multinational firm based in the UAE. He now serves as group chief adviser to a Lahore-based firm owned by a Pakistani politician.
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