New strategic cooperation?
THE killing of two top Al Qaeda leaders last week — one by Pakistani security forces, the other by a US drone strike — signify renewed effective counterterrorism cooperation between…
Civil-military
Capital suggestion In November 2013, General Raheel Sharif became the 15th chief of army staff. In November 2013, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar announced that the former president Pervez Musharraf would…
Civil-military imbalance
The security establishment is firmly in the driving seat. It is calling the shots with respect to the multiple internal security challenges facing the nation. Caught in a political quagmire,…
Perils of covert operations
The debate over the June 9 raids by the Indian Army’s Special Forces against two northeastern insurgent groups on Myanmarese territory has produced two main reactions. The first, from Prime…
‘Operation Failure’
COAS General Raheel Sharif claims that he is fighting to end militancy in politics. PM Nawaz Sharif, Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Quaid-e-Tehreek Altaf Hussain view General Raheel’s ‘fight’ as…
Operation Stalemate
Timeline: In January, the National Action Plan (NAP) was firmed up. In January, the GHQ facilitated the formation of apex committees for the implementation NAP. In March, Nine-Zero was raided.…
France displaces Britain as key US military ally
Once a source of irritation for the United States, France has nudged aside Britain to become the US military's key European partner. The growing ties between the two militaries were…
Legal aspects of operation
ZARB-i-Azb is primarily being undertaken to disarm and eliminate the private armies of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Al Qaeda and Uzbek militants. It is, thus, clearly an exercise to enforce…
From A Ringside Seat: No word on Balochistan cauldron, Karachi operation
Clad in a off-white suit with a red and black polka dot silk tie, President Mamnoon Hussain began his address to the joint session of parliament amid thumping of desks…
Fata operations and the evolving situation
Eliminating militants and militancy does not mean conquering Fata again and again. This has been the practice since 9/11, a glimpse of which was again seen in North Waziristan recently…
