THERE are lines you never cross, even in politics. In Kasur, Fazal ur Rehman crossed one. He said our soldiers die because they get paid to die. Like you can hand a mother a flag with her son’s body and tell her not to cry because the salary will keep coming.

No salary makes a man stand in Siachen at -20°C, his hands frozen to his rifle. No salary makes a 22-year-old captain walk into a house in Waziristan knowing a suicide bomber is waiting inside. What salary did 16-year-old Aitzaz Hasan get when he stopped a bomber outside his school and gave his own life?

This is not about money. It is........

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