Pakistan Army
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Inter Services Public Relations; ISPR (Pakistan)
Hamid Hussain examines how the Pakistan Army manages its public narrative through Inter Services Public Relations, noting that conflicts between army and civilian institutions produce competing narratives, and recommends a…
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Clarifying Two Misconceptions
Though a critic of the Pakistan Army’s political interference, the author sets out to correct two common misconceptions, first examining whether General Zia played a role in Jordan’s Black September…
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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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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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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…
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The Army is on the job..
The author argues that the Pakistan army uses every crisis, here the latest attack, to elbow civilians aside, with ISPR press releases presenting its action in Punjab as unilateral and…
