Pakistan Army
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Podcasts by Major Amin. India, Pakistan, Proxy Wars
Introduces Major Agha Humayun Amin’s podcasts, one covering his background in Afghanistan and his views that no actor there is truly non-state, that the Taliban are Pakistan’s proxy, and that…
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Book Review: Limited War in South Asia
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Kaushik Roy and Scott Gates’s Limited War in South Asia, faulting its inaccurate maps of Pakistani corps, its exaggeration of the Indian Army’s role in…
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In memoriam: Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir.
Hamid Hussain remembers Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir, who took his own life on 15 March 2019 and in a note blamed harassment by the National Accountability Bureau. He recalls their…
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Does the nuclear arsenal “protect” Pakistan?
Zach poses questions rather than opinions: what India would have done had Pakistan not been nuclear, how strong India’s conventional forces are, whether China would intervene, and whether other states…
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Can India and Pakistan Make Peace?
Major Agha H. Amin’s 2013 article argues that Pakistan’s military desire for peace with India is a tactical response to US pressure over Afghanistan, as with Musharraf’s earlier overtures. The…
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Kabuki Dance – Pakistan’s Balancing Act
Hamid Hussain argues Pakistan’s regional environment has turned harder under Imran Khan, who faces fast US-Taliban talks, Iran’s isolation and Gulf rivalries amid domestic instability and economic decline. He notes…
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Interview: Cecil Choudhry and MG Hidayat Niazi
Major Amin shares excerpts from his 2001 interview with Pakistan Air Force veteran Cecil Choudhry and Major General Hidayat Niazi, covering weak intelligence before the wars, the finest officers and…
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Forbidden Fruit. Military in Politics in Pakistan
An article from 2003 by Dr Hamid Hussain on how soldiers become involved in politics, tracing the politicisation of Pakistan’s officer corps and how repeated military rule has militarised politics,…
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Major General Akbar Khan
Hamid Hussain profiles Major General Akbar Khan (1912-1994), a Pathan from Charsadda commissioned from Sandhurst in 1934, tracing his Frontier Force service and Second World War battalion before the Kashmir…
