Will Gen Bajwa walk the talk?
In one of the most noticeable statements from the country’s military leadership, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa has proposed that a “people-centric approach based on local ownership” should…
Challenges for General Bajwa
With many internal and external challenges confronting the nation, the new CoAS was plunged into a testing situation right from the word "go". Stepping up his drive to isolate Pakistan…
Khan versus Bajwa
THE ongoing polemical war between the former prime minister and former army chief has laid bare the political machinations that marked the erstwhile hybrid rule. The acrimonious split between the two has…
Bajwa tales
The fierce ping pong of statements by the government and the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continues without any signs of abating in favour of a civilised, democratic exchange. Of late,…
Convergence on Afghanistan
Two days after CoAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa returned from a daylong visit to Kabul on June 11, 2018, during which he met the Afghan and US military leadership, Mullah…
The Bajwa doctrine
‘Horror vacui’ – ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. Aristotle, the father of Western philosophy, postulated that wherever vacuums would occur, ‘denser surrounding material would immediately fill the vacuum’. Nawaz Sharif, not…
The myth of the dovish general
Now that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appointed Qamar Bajwa as the next chief of army staff, there are some sighs of relief that are understandable, there are others that…
On a tangent
ISPR. in the recent past these four letters have dominated the national scene like no other. From national politics to counterterrorism, from foreign relations to defence matters, from chalking political…
An insidious agenda
There can be little doubt Gen Raheel Sharif hasn’t put a foot wrong in the popular perception since being elevated to the position of the chief of army staff and…
Another layer of control
THE establishment’s growing oversight of key state institutions suggests a strategic pivot on its part to restore order within the governance system. While it has historically contributed to institutional dysfunction…
