Was Kiyani held back from staging coup

Amidst the rising political unrest in Pakistan, US on Friday (March 13) claimed that it held back the Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Kiyani from intervening in the stand-off in the country.

US Joint Army Chief of Staff Mike Mullen said that he spoke to Kiyani upward of ten times in the last few days to calm him after the Pak chief felt angered in the manner in which the political establishment was behaving.

Mullen said, “I have had upwards of ten interactions with Kiyani. He wants to do the right thing for Pakistani. But he is in a very tough spot.”

Also in a television interview, Mullen said that he is ‘extermely concerned’ over the situation in Pakistan.

The situation “continues to deteriorate very, very slowly under a political leadership which is very challenged because of the totality of the crisis,” Mullen said in an interview with PBS news.

He also said that General Ashfaq Kayani, is “committed to a civilian government” and doesn’t want to take over as his predecessor Musharraf did in 1999.

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