civil–military relations
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Important WhatsApp Forward on the State of Pakistani politics
X.T.M says he stands with the Sharifs against the army, then reproduces a WhatsApp forward alleging a plan to install Imran Khan and his allies, with offensive remarks by PTI…
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Forbidden Fruit: Military and Politics in Pakistan (and beyond)
Omar Ali reposts Hamid Hussain’s 2003 essay, written as General Musharraf completed his political engineering, arguing that where political institutions are weak and there is no consensus on succession, soldiers…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan Part II
Omar Ali posts Hamid Hussain’s explainer on political engineering in Pakistan before the 25 July 2018 election, written for non-Pakistanis, which opens with quotations on the failings of political leaders,…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan. The Military View
Omar Ali posts the first part of Hamid Hussain’s essay on political engineering in Pakistan, which sets out the army’s view after Nawaz Sharif’s July 2017 disqualification, alleging military hands…
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Eclipse of the Turkish Armed Forces
Hamid Hussain, posted by Omar Ali, traces how the Turkish armed forces lost their role as guardian of Kemalist secularism, following the failed July 2016 coup and fifteen years of…
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The Conundrum that is Husain Haqqani
A reader profile of Husain Haqqani, requested by AnAn, uses public information and two witnesses to argue he is hard to call an opportunist since many Pakistani politicians changed course,…
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New low in civil-military relations in Pakistan
Hamid Hussain outlines, for non-Pakistani readers, the background to the strain in Pakistan’s civil-military relations in 2017, setting the friction against its history and the military’s long role in the…
