Pakistan Army

Pakistan as a spoil of war

A one-line jibe that the PTI-PML-N standoff is a Punjabi spectacle, with a Punjabi-dominated army watching, and asks where Pakistan fits in.

Brown Pundits Archive26 August 20140 comments
General Asad Durrani Discusses Strategy

Hamid Hussain’s red-text comments on a long paper by a former ISI chief, Asad Durrani, on how Pakistan makes strategic decisions, in which Hussain disagrees especially with Durrani’s view of…

Brown Pundits Archive8 July 20140 comments
General Zia in Jordan

Posting a note from Hamid Hussain on General Zia in Jordan, the author adds a first-hand report that the then army chief joined those who forgave Zia, and argues Islamism…

Brown Pundits Archive19 June 20140 comments
Operation in North Waziristan: the end of the beginning?

Weighing the army’s North Waziristan operation, the author backs it for removing nasty militants but doubts any change in using terrorists against Afghans or Indians, expects civilian deaths, and notes…

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Zarb-e-Azb: More the things change…

A string of tweets from Pakistani accounts reacting to Operation Zarb-e-Azb, from claims that Pakistan’s interests in Afghanistan and Kashmir are legitimate to warnings about Indian and UK-based extremists, under…

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Pakistan Taliban- ISIL in waiting? Random Thoughts

Asking whether an ISIS-style victory could happen in Pakistan, the author lists factors favouring the Pakistani Taliban: a state founded as a Muslim homeland, an Islamist reading of the Objective…

Brown Pundits Archive14 June 20140 comments
Pakistan Predictions 2014?

Adding a third instalment of Pakistan predictions, prompted by Ahsan Butt’s piece on a Taliban victory, the author recalls his 2012 forecasts of mutually assured corruption among army, politicians and…

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Why were the Jihadis created?

A tweet by Haji Sriram Pasha (@HarPasha) argues Pakistan’s jihadi groups were raised to intimidate its own people, not to serve strategic depth against India. The poster agrees about the…

Brown Pundits Archive7 June 20140 comments
Sponsoring Terrorism in Afghanistan; the early days..

Posts Ikram Sehgal’s Pakistan Today column on the army and the ISI, whose first half the poster finds a source of little-known tidbits about recent AfPak history while unsure what…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments
The Officer’s Advice

Reproduces Waseem Altaf’s column arguing the army and ISI’s campaign against Geo TV is immature and will make the channel a hero, illustrated by an anecdote of a pre-partition Lahore…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments