Pakistan Army
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General Bajwa, please retire
Republished from 2019, the post argues that General Bajwa’s army-chief extension crowns a tenure of rolled-back civil liberties and media freedom, and that Imran Khan’s government abandoned its governing responsibilities…
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Afghan Snake Pit
Replying to a senior Pakistani officer, Hamid Hussain argues that US-Pakistan ties over the next year turn on Afghanistan: Washington wants Pakistan to restrain a Taliban takeover, while Pakistan insists…
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Brigadier FB Ali; the Man Who Removed Yahya Khan
Hamid Hussain’s obituary of Brigadier F. B. Ali (1929-2021) recounts his career in the Pakistan Army and his roles in the December 1971 move against Yahya Khan and an alleged…
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Major Amin’s Summing up of the 3 Major Indo-Pak Wars
Major Amin, in an extract from his history of the Pakistan army, sums up the three Indo-Pak wars, arguing that Gilgit was won in 1947 by British and Gilgit Scouts…
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General AAK Niazi, Military career
A note by Hamid Hussain on the military career of Lt Gen A. A. K. Niazi, the Eastern Command chief who surrendered in December 1971. The introduction presents it as…
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Nadir Ali 1936-2020, RIP
An obituary of Colonel Nadir Ali (1936-2020) by his son, recounting a Punjab childhood, helping rescue kidnapped girls during Partition, Pakistan Army service, a 1971 East Pakistan deployment that left…
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Bangladesh’s War of Liberation-Historicising a Personal Narrative
A talk given by retired Pakistan Army Colonel Nadir Ali at BRAC University in Dhaka in 2007, recounting his experience of 1971 in East Pakistan, his links to Bengali officers…
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Afghan Conundrum II
Hamid Hussain surveys Pakistan’s long involvement in Afghanistan after Donald Trump’s tweet that US troops would be home by Christmas, noting Imran Khan’s government has handed the Afghan file to…
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Why Did the Indian and Pakistani Armies fail in 1965?
A very long chapter from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s history of the Pakistan Army analysing why both armies failed in the 1965 war, posted whole by Omar Ali as a…
