civil–military relations
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Regency, Not Rupture in Pakistan (Open Thread)
Open thread: X.T.M reads interior minister Mohsin Naqvi’s claim that Pakistan’s governance system has collapsed as a sign the army needs no coup, arguing that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment already makes…
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Inside Pakistan’s High-Stakes Gamble on Trump
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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Pakistan Does Not Need to Imitate India to Be Stable
X.T.M answers a call for Pakistan to turn secular and drop Kashmir. He argues that state failure comes from weak institutions rather than religious language, that Kashmir is foundational to…
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🇮🇳Op Sindoor: A Podcast on Pahalgam, Pakistan, and the Limits of Peace
X.T.M reflects on the first half-hour of the BrownCast episode on Op Sindoor, covering the Pahalgam massacre, Modi and Nawaz Sharif’s failed diplomacy, the civil–military cycle in Pakistan, and India’s…
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Judicial Jitters in Pakistan, continued..
Hamid Hussain, in the first of three pieces, argues that the rift among Pakistan’s senior judges, split seven to seven, stems from the political crisis and the Supreme Court’s own…
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Pakistan 2022; Things fall apart?
In a BP Podcast, Omar Ali talks to Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, asking whether the army is falling apart or just having a…
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Maj General Tajammal Malik. Very Important Interview
Omar Ali reposts an old Agha H. Amin interview with Maj. Gen. Tajammal Hussain Malik, calling it a must-read on the Pakistan Army, and describes Malik as an excellent field…
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General Qamar Javed Bajwa
Hamid Hussain reviews General Bajwa’s tenure as Pakistan’s army chief, arguing that he inherited the army’s political engineering project backing Imran Khan, a ‘hybrid regime’ in which the institution became…
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Asad Durrani Views on Imran Khan
Omar Ali reposts former ISI chief Asad Durrani’s commentary on the Imran Khan phenomenon, in which Durrani argues that army attempts at political engineering have always failed. Omar offers it…
