Pakistan Army

Blasphemy and its discontents..

Open thread opening with news items on blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, including a doctor shot dead after a remark to a pharmaceutical representative and a Multan University lecturer targeted by…

BP Admin Team · opened by Brown Pundits Archive13 May 20140 comments
Post Apocalypse means AFTER the apocalypse..

Clarifying an earlier post, the poster sketches what could follow if the Pakistan army fails to change course: a short religious apocalypse in Punjab, then possible Sikh rule under Indian…

Brown Pundits Archive9 May 20146 comments
Imran Khan boarding the wrong train…as usual

The author argues that Imran Khan is backing the wrong side in joining the campaign against Geo, since the army’s grip on politics has been weakening for years and Geo’s…

Brown Pundits Archive29 April 20140 comments
“We love Pakistan army and ISI”

A comment on Geo TV’s unprecedented public defiance of the ISI after the attack on Hamid Mir; the poster expects little to change except Geo’s demise, but thinks breaking the…

Brown Pundits Archive28 April 20141 comment
Deep State Fatwa: shut down Geo TV (or else)

A comment, with a news extract, on the Pakistan Army’s demand that Geo TV be shut after it accused the ISI of ordering an attack on Hamid Mir; the poster…

Brown Pundits Archive23 April 20141 comment
Kargil War

Reposting an older piece, the author argues Kargil was no great victory thrown away by Nawaz Sharif. He once accepted the ‘tactical success, strategic blunder’ line, but later details showed…

Brown Pundits Archive7 April 20141 comment
Who betrayed whom?

A note on Carlotta Gall’s book The Wrong Enemy, which claims Pakistani generals knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence, with the official Pakistani rebuttals.

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20141 comment
SAsia (mostly India) and the USA

A report on cut US aid to Pakistan, with the poster arguing that Washington needs Pakistan for a smooth exit from Afghanistan and that the curious wording of the announcement…

Brown Pundits Archive5 March 20141 comment
Taking on the TTP, part X

A postscript to an earlier piece, in which the author argues the TTP has made monkeys of Nawaz Sharif’s government as the army prepares a North Waziristan operation, and sums…

Brown Pundits Archive18 February 20149 comments
GHQ Response to Taliban Demands

A satirical 15-point reply, written by Imtiaz Mahmood, to the TTP’s demands, imagining what GHQ would say if it were not directing the negotiations, beginning with surrender and trial.

Brown Pundits Archive10 February 20140 comments