Category: Pakistan
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The Generals Talk on Will Pakistan Fail
Lt Gen Satish Dua and I resumed with ‘The Generals Talk’ after a long time. It was an interesting talk since the subject was Pakistan. However one issue which came out of the discussion was that Pakistan might be down temporarily but it is not out. One should never the Pakistani ability to create mischief.…
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THE UNFOLDING CHESSBOARD IN PAKISTAN BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
My last article was a peek into China through extracts from South China Morning Post. Time to get back to Pakistan and excerpts from DAWN. There is something very familiar about Pakistan…it is known territory…easy to understand…and stirs up our mental faculties and juices very well. All our analysts and experts , specially the valley based military…
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Ringside View and Introspection of Horror in Pakistan By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
A Sri Lankan was beaten to death and his body was burnt by an enraged mob in Sialkot over allegations of blasphemy. My first reaction was…ah Pakistan at it again! There is no doubt that Pakistan is now being eaten bone dry from the insides by two piranas – sectarian divisions and ideological radicalism. They are…
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Faces of Pakistan By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Flip through the DAWN and it will bring forth a few home truths. Pakistan is back to best at what it does – fighting wars it cannot win with a begging bowl. During the high voltage Afghan crisis, Pakistan was riding a tiger. It put the Taliban in power and left 42 million Afghans in…
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The Pakistan of Shaheeds, Ghazis and Niazis by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Earlier Articles :- Naya Contours of Purana Pakistan Happiness is a Pakistani State of Mind I was reading up on the TLP fracas which is going on in Pakistan. I came across this great line – “Haar gaye toh shaheed, jeet gaye toh ghazi, surrender kar diya toh Niazi”. Familiar? Niazi’s and surrender in Pakistan are…
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NAYA CONTOURS OF PURANA PAKISTAN BY LT GEN PR SHANKAR(R)
Till last month Pakistan was triumphant and flush with its victory over its ally. Happiness was to put drug smugglers in power in Afghanistan and sermonising the world to recognise Taliban. It strode the world stage like a behemoth behind Chinese skirts and made pompous statements. That was not the Pakistan we always knew. That was…
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Happiness is a Pakistani State of Mind by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Till last month Pakistan was the kingmaker. After all it had put the Taliban in the Afghan throne. It was sitting in cloud nine. Their PM , their foot in the mouth Foreign minister and that mousy NSA were imploring the world to recognise Taliban or else….till the Taliban said that Pakistan International Airlines would be…
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The First Half Army: 74 years of Pakistan's first capitulation to Indian Army By Lt Gen PR Shankar (R)
This article has been published originally @ https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/the-first-half-army-74-years-of-pakistans-first-capitulation-to-indian-army.html. Pakistan Army exudes a hubris of fighting capability and martial tradition. However, Stephen Cohen once described it as the finest army in the world which never won a war. The fact that it has lost all wars with the Indian Army and that too at a time and…
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Why Imran Khan is Called Taliban Khan by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Have you ever wondered why the Imran Khan, the PM of Pakistan is called Taliban Khan? Well the answers are there in all the cartoons drawn by Pakistanis. However if pictures have not conveyed the truth, read the excerpts from articles written by Pakistanis themselves. Very clearly Imran Khan is made from a…
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