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Musharraf And The Military

Musharraf and the military

Part - I When the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill was finally submitted in the US Congress in 2009 for approval, it contained two clauses that especially irked the Pakistani military. One dealt…

The Judiciary & Military

The judiciary & military

Is there a connection between the Supreme Court’s recent order against the prime minister in the rental power case and Maulana Tahirul Qadri’s long march? Is the “new anti-democratic establishment”…

National security

THE edifice of national security stands on the four pillars of political stability, economic and technological strength, military power and proactive diplomacy. The weakness of any of these pillars adversely…

People, sword, pen

“So, that the people of Pakistan may prosper and attain their rightful and honoured place amongst the nations of the World” — Preamble to the Constitution, 1973 IN my own…

Judicial capture

The established cornerstone of democracy is separation of powers. Within it, a judicial system can only deliver if it is guided solely by legal principle and not politics or personal…

JIT is no answer

THE federal government has formed a joint investigation team comprising officers of various investigation and intelligence agencies to “ascertain the facts behind a malicious social media campaign against Supreme Court judges”. Three…

Burial of reason

It is said: what’s in a number; after all, it is just a number. But did anyone ever think that it could be much more than that? It could actually…

Living dangerously

The IMF has released the staff report listing stringent conditions for the latest standby agreement with Pakistan. Will Pakistan be able to comply? There is no direct answer to the…

Through creative destruction: Part – III

This is in continuation of the three articles in which I had discussed Pakistan’s critical need for debt restructuring and transformational reforms (described as ‘creative destruction’) to reconstruct the country’s…

Anatomy of a conflict

The current tug-of-war between the executive/parliament and the judiciary may be seen from two perspectives: one, as a morbid manifestation of a crumbling social order in which the key norms…