WHILE the sceptics were still unsure about taking at face value the reiteration by the army chief in Washington, D.C., as he told compatriots at the Pakistan Embassy that he would retire in seven weeks' time, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa threw down the gauntlet for anyone trying to destabilise the country on his return home. Addressing the passing-out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, a day after flying home from the US, with only a two-hour refuelling stop at a UK airport and another at Dubai, he advised the cadets, soon to be newly minted officers, not to be distracted by 'fake news and political wrangling in the country'.

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