Pakistan Army
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Pakistan 2022; Things fall apart?
In a BP Podcast, Omar Ali talks to Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, asking whether the army is falling apart or just having a…
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Maj General Tajammal Malik. Very Important Interview
Omar Ali reposts an old Agha H. Amin interview with Maj. Gen. Tajammal Hussain Malik, calling it a must-read on the Pakistan Army, and describes Malik as an excellent field…
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General Qamar Javed Bajwa
Hamid Hussain reviews General Bajwa’s tenure as Pakistan’s army chief, arguing that he inherited the army’s political engineering project backing Imran Khan, a ‘hybrid regime’ in which the institution became…
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Asad Durrani Views on Imran Khan
Omar Ali reposts former ISI chief Asad Durrani’s commentary on the Imran Khan phenomenon, in which Durrani argues that army attempts at political engineering have always failed. Omar offers it…
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Browncast: Is Imran Khan on the Way Out?
Omar Ali talks with Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, and why and how the military may have abandoned Imran Khan, exposing him to a…
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General Bajwa Talks to University Students
Omar Ali shares a friend’s account of a four-hour candid talk by General Qamar Javed Bajwa to Lahore students and faculty on Pakistan’s history, politics and personal matters, with details…
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Pakistan vs Tehreek e Taliban, Dr Hamid Hussain’s view
Posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain’s analysis of Pakistan’s possible rapprochement with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan is followed by a later exchange with a British analyst and a Pakistani army officer’s…
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Major Amin’s Review: 1965, A Western Sunrise. by Shiv Kunal Varma
Reviewing Shiv Kunal Verma’s 1965: A Western Sunrise, retired Major Agha H Amin finds it a good effort with interesting background but lists several errors on brigade structure, the SSG’s…
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Browncast: Omar Ali on Pakistan, Myths and Realities
Reversing roles, Maneesh Taneja interviews Omar Ali on Pakistan’s ideology, Partition, why the army rules and how India-Pakistan relations may evolve; errata correct the Indian army’s share of Muslims at…
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Afghanistan; Graveyard of Western Policy Wonks (but certainly NOT the graveyard of empires)
The author doubts that the US is consciously trapping Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran in Afghanistan, as Major Amin argues, and expects the same Western policy experts to return to…
