hybrid regime
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Open Thread: Nepal Floods + 20 months since Assad
Open Thread, 27 August 2026. X.T.M opens by suggesting that Middle Eastern hybrid regimes balance the great powers nimbly, while democracies such as Israel and India pursue grander foreign policies,…
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The Writ of the Pakistani State into P.A.K
Two states reached for the same instrument five weeks apart. The AJK police called the protesters a challenge to the writ of the state. Pradhan put tukde-tukde forces at Jantar…
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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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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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Pakistan’s Pseudo-Revolution Marches on..
The author argues that Pakistan’s army put Imran Khan in office in 2018 and that the middle class’s belief in revolution is mistaken, since GHQ wants to harden the existing…
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Pakistan’s Hybrid Government and the Aasia Bibi Fiasco..
A detailed account of the Aasia Bibi case, from her 2009 arrest after a village dispute to Salmaan Taseer’s assassination and the court rulings, arguing it exposes Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy…
