October 2016
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Pakistan and GHQ’s commitment to fight terrorists..
The author asks how outsiders can judge whether the Pakistan army is committed to defeating all Islamist militant groups, and proposes public metrics, such as whether the main enemy is…
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More “Collateral Damage” in Quetta General Durrani
After an attack on a police training college in Quetta killed about 50 recruits, the author points to overlapping militant groups with semi-legal sponsors and mocks the military’s media machine,…
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General Mohammed Akbar Khan (and some others)
Hamid Hussain profiles Major General Muhammad Akbar Khan (1897-1993), the senior-most Muslim officer at independence, tracing his Minhas Rajput family’s fortunes under Sikh and British patronage and his career in…
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Film: Royal Indian Army Service Corps in World War 2
Hamid Hussain introduces a ten-minute wartime film on the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in France, noting its animal transport, a presentation to the King, and three people in it,…
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Musharraf’s Coup. October 1999
Hamid Hussain, in a piece first written in 2012, reviews the background to the October 1999 coup, the differences between Nawaz Sharif and General Musharraf after Kargil, and the decisions…
