Favourite officers
During the last sixty-three-years the army officers who took control of the affairs of the country was favourite of the political leaders. Brigadier General Mohammad Ayub Khan served the political leaders while discharging duties during the tumultuous partition days. Mohammad Ali Jinnah appointed him the first GOC of the then East Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan, the first prime minister of Pakistan, appointed adjutant general of Pakistan Army General Mohammad Ayub Khan as the first commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman appointed Major General K. M. Shafiullah BU as the chief of army staff and Major General Ziaur Rahman BU as the deputy chief of army staff of Bangladesh Army and both of them were provided with various facilities. After assumption of the high position, the army officers comes in contact with the high officials of the three branches of the government-- the executive, legislative & the judiciary. Moreover they also come close to the diplomatic circle, bankers, contractors, industrialists and also the noted editors.
While assuming the state power through martial law they induct only one editor in the cabinet while the rest being subjected to scrutiny and therefore all the chief martial law administrators became unpopular in the media.
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