Sindhi leader Shafi Burfat accused Pakistan’s Army of being a corrupt mercenary mafia that trades loyalty for money, deceives allies, and undermines global trust for financial gain.
In a blistering attack on Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, Shafi Burfat, Chairman of the of the Sindhi nationalist group Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), accused the Pakistan Army of being a “corrupt mercenary mafia” that trades loyalty for dollars and deceives global powers for profit.
Posting on X, Burfat alleged that “Pakistan’s Army is a corrupt mercenary mafia trading loyalty for dollars, capable of deceiving the United States or any other country at any moment.”
He said the military’s decades-long conduct, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, showed a consistent pattern of “opportunism disguised as strategy.” According to Burfat, “the Pakistani establishment has never fought for faith, ideology, or justice, it has fought for payment.”
Burfat claimed that during the Soviet-Afghan war, Islamabad presented itself as a defender of jihad only to amass Western aid. The cycle, he argued, repeated after 9/11 when Pakistan joined the US-led War on Terror while allegedly sheltering Osama bin Laden.
“This was not incompetence, it was a calculated deception,” he wrote. “The greater the global fear of terrorism, the more dollars Pakistan’s generals extracted.”
Extending his criticism to current policies, Burfat accused the military of maintaining contradictory alliances with China, the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Israel, claiming Pakistan’s foreign policy had become a bidding war of loyalty.
“If Beijing pays more, it will betray Washington. If the US pays higher, it will deceive China just as easily,” Burfat said, calling the pattern moral decay institutionalized.
He also took aim at Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir, calling him an ignorant fake Field Marshal and criticizing his continued adherence to the outdated two-nation theory.
Burfat’s painted Pakistan’s military as a force thriving on chaos rather than stability — a machine that profits from crises in Afghanistan, Kashmir, and the Middle East while suppressing ethnic movements within its own borders.
“The Pakistan Army has lost all respect in the civilized world,” Burfat declared. “No nation trusts a state that sells its faith and loyalty for money.”
He concluded by saying Pakistan’s military establishment had “turned the country’s dignity, foreign policy, and morality into commodities for sale,” warning that its downfall would stem not from external enemies but from its own corruption and duplicity.
