Pakistan Army
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Kargil
Reproduces Teresita Schaffer’s review of Peter Lavoy’s edited book on Kargil, which finds Pakistan’s tactical victory became strategic defeat under a nuclear shadow, and shows the army’s self-delusion about India’s…
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Political Engineering in Pakistan. The Military View
Omar Ali posts the first part of Hamid Hussain’s essay on political engineering in Pakistan, which sets out the army’s view after Nawaz Sharif’s July 2017 disqualification, alleging military hands…
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1947-48 Kashmir War
Extracts from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s history of the 1947-48 Kashmir war, arguing it was a war of lost opportunities in which Pakistan’s army was closer to victory in 1947…
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The Merchants of Rawalpindi
Reposts a Times of India column by Sunil Sharan asking why Trump is angry with Pakistan, which it argues will not help him exit Afghanistan, with only a one-line comment…
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East Pakistan 1971
Prompted by Dawn’s summary and an Ahsan Butt article, the author gives his own view of 1971 in East Pakistan, covering the disputed death toll, Pakistani denial and Bengali reprisals…
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New low in civil-military relations in Pakistan
Hamid Hussain outlines, for non-Pakistani readers, the background to the strain in Pakistan’s civil-military relations in 2017, setting the friction against its history and the military’s long role in the…
