civil–military relations
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Browncast: Is Imran Khan on the Way Out?
Omar Ali talks with Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, and why and how the military may have abandoned Imran Khan, exposing him to a…
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General Bajwa Talks to University Students
Omar Ali shares a friend’s account of a four-hour candid talk by General Qamar Javed Bajwa to Lahore students and faculty on Pakistan’s history, politics and personal matters, with details…
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Browncast: Ambassador Kamran Shafi on Benazir, Nawaz Sharif, Military Rule, etc
Omar Ali talks to Kamran Shafi, a former army officer, columnist, Benazir Bhutto’s press secretary and ambassador to Cuba, about Benazir, Nawaz Sharif and military rule, with a voice-message postscript…
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General Bajwa, please retire
Republished from 2019, the post argues that General Bajwa’s army-chief extension crowns a tenure of rolled-back civil liberties and media freedom, and that Imran Khan’s government abandoned its governing responsibilities…
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The Qualitative Destruction of Pakistan Army between 1955 and 1971
An essay by retired Major A. H. Amin, written in 1999 and reposted from his Military History Centre site, arguing the Pakistan Army’s quality was eroded between 1955 and 1971…
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After the 1971 Ceasefire: The Officers Who Wrote to Yahya
Reproduces a Pakistani officer’s account of the weeks after the 1971 ceasefire, including a reported letter from officers of 6 Armoured Division asking President Yahya to resign, and the subsequent…
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Book Review: The Battle for Pakistan
Hamid Hussain reviews Shuja Nawaz’s The Battle for Pakistan as a timely work, praising its access to Pakistani army and US sources on the transactional US-Pakistan relationship, army succession struggles…
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Why Musa was made C in C Pakistan Army
Reposting Aslam Minhas, via Major Amin, on why Ayub Khan made General Musa commander-in-chief in 1958, overlooking the better qualified Habibullah Khan, a choice that some officers later saw as…
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The “Same Page” saga..
Retired general Asad Durrani’s article on the army chief’s tenure extension and the ‘same page’ arrangement in Pakistan, reposted with red comments by Dr Hamid Hussain and blue comments by…
