Category: THE HUES OF PAKISTAN
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WHERE IS PAKISTAN HEADED?
Where is Pakistan headed is an easy and difficult question to answer for everyone including the Pakistanis. The panel threw up various issues related to Pakistan from different perspectives and ventured to explore new ideas. One thing is clear. Pakistan’s duplicious methods will ensure that it will continue to struggle and keep everyone on tenterhooks…
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A NEW CHAPTER IN PAK-CHINA COLLUSION
A new chapter in PAK- CHINA collusion is unfolding. Pak is being armed with latest mil capabilities including stealth fighters, submarines and stealth frigates. The number is China Pakistan exercises are on the rise exponentially. More than 50 % of Pak mil equipment will be Chinese hereafter. Gwadar is set to be Chinas 1st overseas…
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PAKISTAN VS PAKISTANIS
Brig Arun Sahgal who has experience of Track 2 efforts , analyses the current goings on in Pakistan holistically. Increasingly the Pakistan state will continue to suppress Pakistani people as the Army continues to control the strings and Imran Khan is kept in jail. At this level, Pakistan will continue to find new bottoms in…
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CRICKET, COERCION, TERROR & INDIA PAK TIES IN TRUMP 2.0 ERA
Lt Gen SA Hasnain and I started our discussion with cricket and then expanded to Kashmir, Pak’s terror apparatus and the entire gamut of India Pak relations as they are likely to unfold in the Trump 2.0 era. It was a wholesome discussion. One of the best I have had in recent times.
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PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT : PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES
Problems and Challenges faced by the Pakistan Government are well known. Earlier they had some solution to their issues…now they have none…as the Pak Army continues to manipulate to stay in power at the expense of the people. How long will it last? Oh incidentally Dr Ayesha Siddiqa did not turn up…why?…I do not know.…
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Kashmir Elections – Impact on Pakistan
Mr Tahir Aslam Gora and I had a wide ranging conversation on Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The significant issue is that he feels for the first time he sees signs break up of Pakistan due to synergies developing between militant, political and social stands of Baluch and Pashtun movements. It will be beyond the divided…
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Nature of Threats From an Unstable Pakistan
There is s perception gaining currency that the threat from Pakistan is reducing as its multi crisis endures and the economy enters into an unknown territory. As per evidence on ground Pakistan’s conventional and nuclear capability has not been affected despite the problems it faces. In fact the threat from an unstable Pakistan is much…
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EXPLODING FAULT LINES IN PAKISTAN
Lt Gen K J Singh (R) has this simple and direct view that Pakistan came into being with manufacturing defects. This unnatural nation has endemic fault lines which include its permanently unsettled borders, constitutional shortcomings, religious flaws. societal cracks and many more including the geographical fault of being dependant on only one river. It was…
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A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF THE PAKISTAN ARMED FORCES : PART 3- DEFENDING GODS CAUSE
The third part of the series in which I have outlined the religious and radical moorings of the Pakistan Army as defenders of gods cause. Links to the Part 1 and 2 are given below. A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S ARMED FORCES / PART 1 -GUARDING THE NATIONS BORDERS A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S…
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A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S ARMED FORCES : PART 2 – PROTECTING ITS POSITION IN SOCIETY
IN THIS EPISODE I HAVE OUTLINED HOW THE PAKISTAN ARMY HAS SYSTEMATICALLY TAKEN OVE THE GOVERNANCE OF PAKISTAN AND HAS CEMENTED ITS ROLE IN THE SOCIETY. A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S ARMED FORCES / PART 1 -GUARDING THE NATIONS BORDERS A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF THE PAKISTAN ARMED FORCES : PART 3- DEFENDING GODS CAUSE
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