Directions: In the following question, sentences of a paragraph have been jumbled and have been labelled as A, B, C, D and E. You are required to rearrange the jumbled sentences accordingly by selecting the correct option.

A: not necessarily because of a bad choice; but more so because the man so chosen now carried political baggage, and had been catapulted to an office that allowed him to get rid of it.

B: If not done correctly, it could cause plenty of damage – especially to the launcher.

C: Ours is not the only country in which the military has guns, but is certainly amongst those where the political power continues to flow through their barrel.

D: Selecting an army chief in Pakistan is thus like tossing a boomerang.

E: If that’s what led some of our selectors to go down the ladder to find an army chief who would spare their throne, it always backfired;