Across two military dictatorships, wherein generals and admirals of the Pakistan Armed Forces had control over the country, it would coincidentally be found that four senior generals would be closest to the military dictator of the day.
This specific quantified set was briefed in the classified intelligence matters by the executive branches of the government.
The term was popularized by Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) in 1980s in political science sphere of Pakistan.
[2][3] In 1999, the term was again used by military authors of Kargil War, implicating mastermind of Kargil misadventure and staging military coup d'état against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999.
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