Pakistan Army
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The growing Pakistan-Afghan Conflict. What next?
The author asks where Pakistan goes next as the Durand Line dispute and the TTP insurgency escalate. He argues that Pakistani military superiority may not decide a mountain insurgency, and…
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Wag the dog?
Playing devil’s advocate, the author argues that Pakistanis blame the military establishment for every failure, citing the false claim that half the budget goes to the army, and says that…
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India and Pakistan, Back to the Future..
Omar Ali sets out why Pakistan might have been behind the Pahalgam attack, or why it might not, after Pulwama and Balakot reset the red lines. He weighs the generals’…
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The Historic Task of the Pakistani Bourgeoisie
Omar Ali argues that the Two-Nation Theory is a dangerous basis for Pakistan, and that the Pakistani bourgeoisie’s historic task is to defang it or watch the state break up.…
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Obituary: Major Agha Humayun Amin
An obituary of Major (retd) Agha Humayun Amin, who died in Lahore aged about 64. It remembers him as Pakistan’s premier military historian, a stickler for accuracy with salty opinions,…
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An Electoral Earthquake in Pakistan
Omar Ali reads Pakistan’s February 2024 election as a shock to the army, which he says engineered Imran Khan’s rise in 2018 and removal in 2021, and credits Khan with…
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Obituary: Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam, 1938-2023
An obituary of Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam (1938-2023), the author’s father’s closest friend, recording his unrecorded part as a young artillery captain in the defence of Lahore in 1965, and…
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Major Amin on the current crisis, May 2023
A short BrownCast chat with Major Agha Humayun Amin, well known to the podcast’s listeners, on what is going on in the May 2023 crisis, in which the host mentions…
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Pakistan Crisis: The Arrest of Imran Khan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh discuss the arrest of Imran Khan, giving background to the crisis, what is happening now and what to expect, with links to…
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Major Amin on the Current Crisis in Pakistan
A BrownCast in which Major Amin, at listeners’ request, gives a short summary of Pakistan’s political history, the current crisis, and especially the army’s role and the damage its mishandling…
