The Director General of ISPR did not leave much to the imagination.

After his fiery press conference, in which he called PTI founder Imran Khan a mentally unstable person and national security threat, there are two questions resonating across the land:

What will the state do now? And, how will PTI respond?

The DG's combative presser comes in the wake of the formal elevation of Field Marshall Asim Munir as the Chief of Defence Forces and the Chief of Army Staff for a five-year term beginning now. This means he will occupy the powerful office till 2030, with the prospects of another extension till 2035.

Here are ten key points that address these two crucial questions.

1. Something triggered the DG's controlled verbal explosion at the presser. Was it the incendiary language by Khan against the military leadership? Or his sister unleashing criticism against the government on Indian TV channels? Or the former prime minister raking his own parliamentarians over coals and labeling them traitors for attending the National Security Workshop conducted by the military? Or was this a by-product of the new changes in the military high command – changes that have instilled greater confidence and continuity to the high offices, and those who occupy them? Perhaps it was a combination of all these, and other factors, that convinced the high command to cross another Rubicon.

2. What does the crossing of this Rubicon mean? The first possible implication may be a principal decision by the establishment – and by extension, the government – that PTI and its leadership shall have no role to play in the........

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