Of civil and military relations
As the baton has now passed to Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, there is no shortage of free advice consisting of dos’ and don’ts for the new army chief. While some…
Civil-military relations 2.0
We have some pretty complex problems in Fata, Balochistan, Karachi. How we frame these problems is always interesting. In our discourse, the problems are faced by our troops who are…
Civil-military relations and democracy – II
It is only too obvious that in a parliamentary democracy, where governments can change after elections, such trained specialists should be totally neutral and apolitical. Otherwise, every new government will…
Civil-military relations
ON June 14, 1948, Jinnah visited the army staff college, Quetta, and spoke to the army officers present. He was frail and weak and had only three more months to…
Military-media relationship
The world over, the media and the military have never had an easy relationship. In Pakistan’s case the issue is more than usually complicated. The military wants favourable coverage of…
Renewing foreign relationships
Pakistan and the United States have a multifaceted historic relationship marked by noteworthy cooperation across various domains, including trade and commerce, defence, education, infrastructure, and information technology. In the realm…
Military’s constitutional role
WHILE expressing his innocent wonder over why our armed forces are “often made the subject of criticism”, Gen Bajwa, our former army chief, recently conceded that this may just have something to…
A complicated relationship
The historical relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been marked by a series of conflicts and diplomatic tensions despite the two being dominantly Muslim neighbouring countries with thousands of years…
Power relations
Whenever American policymakers talk about India, they sing praises of its cultural diversity, hailing it as the world’s oldest and largest democracy. The euphoria of shared values of common democratic…
US military deals not enough to wean India off Russian arms yet
India’s multi-billion-dollar purchases of US arms are less about shifting its reliance on Russian defence equipment and moving towards the West - it’s more about developing its own domestic weapons…
