"Immigration involves foreign affairs, health, economics, border affairs, all of those things," he said.
Three powerful ministries – defence, home affairs and border affairs – are filled by members of the defence services, or Tatmadaw.
Under the army-drafted constitution, the military controls the three most powerful government ministries: home, defence and border affairs.
When the NLD forms a government, the head of the army will be appointing the government ministers responsible for border affairs, defence and home affairs.
The commander appoints the ministers of defence, interior and border affairs and can declare a state of emergency that overrides much of the government apparatus.
Calls made Friday to the Beijing offices of the United Front Work Department, which helps oversee Tibet policy, and to the border affairs office of the Tibet Autonomous Region went unanswered.
But the military, under a constitution that cannot be changed without their consent, still control the key portfolios of defence, border affairs and home affairs.
The army retains control of three key ministries – defence, home affairs and border affairs – and has 25% of the seats in parliament.
The Army controls the ministries for defense, home affairs, and border affairs, and a quarter of the seats in parliament are reserved for men in uniform.
"They captured our land and built the gate on our side," Abdul Razziq, the regional chief of military and border affairs, said of the Pakistanis.
