Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army 2014-15

Hamid Hussain reviews the Pakistan army in 2014 and looks ahead to 2015: General Raheel Sharif’s decision to launch the North Waziristan operation, his working relations with civilian politicians, and…

Brown Pundits Archive31 January 20150 comments
Waiting in Bethlehem

After the Peshawar school attack, the author argues Pakistan needs real civilian leadership and societal change of mindset, which the military cannot deliver, and doubts the hereditary political class, while…

Brown Pundits Archive20 December 20140 comments
Changing Pakistan after Peshawar: The Role of the State

Days after the Peshawar school massacre, the author asks whether Pakistan’s state will make lasting changes, posing hard questions such as who counts as a ‘terrorist’, and traces how puritanical…

Brown Pundits Archive19 December 20140 comments
Massacre of the Innocents: Death Comes Again to Peshawar

A response to the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar, describing the attackers as trained men following rules they drew from sharia, and arguing the army has not abandoned its…

Brown Pundits Archive17 December 20140 comments
Pakistan: Weimar Republic of Asia?

Revisiting his 2011 essay on whether Pakistan is a failed state or a Weimar Republic, Omar Ali argues the greatest danger is not Islamist fanatics but China’s rise inflating the…

X.T.M16 September 20140 comments
“Its a jungle out there”

A Dawn reporter’s account of tear gas at D-Chowk, with the poster’s gloss that civilians confronting the army always lose, and a bleak sketch of the economic and political fallout…

Brown Pundits Archive31 August 20140 comments
False Dawn?

Noting Suzuki importing Indian transmission technology, the poster says the Indian economy is showing signs of life under Modi, compares him to the Pakistani Army as a stabiliser, and warns…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Egypt shows the way

Responding to an American assessment of Pakistan’s protests, the poster argues the army is preferred over mob rule, as in Egypt and Thailand, and that Nawaz Sharif is finished partly…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Soft coup-

A one-paragraph comment that the Pakistan Army has emerged as the winner of the political crisis, with democracy defanged but its legitimacy preserved.

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
We have a deal!!!

Citing a Wall Street Journal report that Nawaz Sharif struck a deal giving the army control of strategic policy, the poster says the army used Imran Khan to soften up…

Brown Pundits Archive28 August 20140 comments