ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court will decide Thursday on whether to force the country’s army chief to retire, in an unprecedented challenge to the nuclear-armed nation’s most powerful institution.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa has served three years in his role, arguably the highest authority in the country, and in August Prime Minister Imran Khan asked him to extend his tenure and serve another three.

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