Pakistan Army
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Pakistan and the Great War
Hamid Hussain, marking the centenary of the Great War’s end, traces the contribution of the areas and units of future Pakistan to the Indian Army, arguing the story cannot be…
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Turan seeks peace..
An extract from a news report that Pakistan’s army, under Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, quietly reached out to India about resuming peace talks and trade, and that the response was…
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Review: General Shahid Aziz’s Memoir Yeh Khamoshi Kahan Tak
The reviewer reads the Urdu memoir of retired Lt Gen Shahid Aziz, once close to Musharraf, finding naive idealism and Islamism that make reports he joined the jihad plausible, and…
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Captain Pakistan and the Faustian Pact
In seven points on Pakistan’s 2018 election, the author argues Imran Khan has made a Faustian bargain with the army, grants vote fudging but welcomes democracy taking seed and the…
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Pakistan Elections 2018
Omar Ali previews Pakistan’s July 2018 election, arguing that the army, through its intelligence agencies and ISPR, has spent a year and a half campaigning against Nawaz Sharif and his…
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Important WhatsApp Forward on the State of Pakistani politics
X.T.M says he stands with the Sharifs against the army, then reproduces a WhatsApp forward alleging a plan to install Imran Khan and his allies, with offensive remarks by PTI…
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Croatia..
X.T.M, writing after a week away at a machine-learning conference, says Croatia’s World Cup run shows a cohesive nation, that Pakistan must avoid Yugoslavia’s fate, and that he is impressed…
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Forbidden Fruit: Military and Politics in Pakistan (and beyond)
Omar Ali reposts Hamid Hussain’s 2003 essay, written as General Musharraf completed his political engineering, arguing that where political institutions are weak and there is no consensus on succession, soldiers…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan Part II
Omar Ali posts Hamid Hussain’s explainer on political engineering in Pakistan before the 25 July 2018 election, written for non-Pakistanis, which opens with quotations on the failings of political leaders,…
