In an interview to Geo News on its show Naya Pakistan, Sanaullah said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has completed the process and will bring it to paper in two days time. 

"I believe the prime minister has completed this process (of consultation about the army chief appointment) and will bring it to paper, today or tomorrow or the next two days,' he said. 

He elaborated that consultation didn't mean giving some the right to dictate terms as it was the prerogative and right of the prime minister to appoint the Army chief. 

Lately, this exercise in the nuclear-armed country has also attracted global attention due to the implications of the job performed by the head of the military. 

The appointment of a successor to Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is set to retire on November 29, is an administrative matter. 

Under the law, the incumbent prime minister is empowered to select any one of the top three-star generals. 

But politically it means installing someone who may pull the strings and even determine the fate of the person who appointed him. 

The power of the Army chief flows not from the canon of any statute book but from the cannons of steel and fire; this power is historical and not constitutional. Still, it is a real hard power. -- PTI