The West misjudges the structures in the Hindu Kush, because for Pakistan the Taliban is not an opponent, but a strategic security, says former Indian Foreign and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh in his comment piece
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WHEN the PPP boycotted the 1985 election held by Gen Ziaul Haq who had deposed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, it helped the general bring in a government, even a parliament, sanitised of the PPP and Bhutto’s followers. By the next election in 1988, the PPP had learnt the error of its ways and also gained from the fact that Zia was no longer holding sway over Pakistani national space. Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Aslam Beg whose appointment as vice chief of army staff was not one Ziaul Haq was said to have been too happy with took the quick decision to hold elections as scheduled, paving the way for the PPP to win. And the Supreme Court allowed the parties to contest.
Congratulations, you ve killed Bin Laden : Moment Pakistani military commander told Obama the hunt for 9/11 mastermind was over is revealed in new oral history of 2011 raid
A new oral history recounts President Barack Obama s decision to authorize the raid on the bin Laden family compound in Pakistan
It describes the efforts to positively identify the top terror leader before and after his death
Pakistani general provided information when U.S. officials finally called to tell him of the raid
Biden viewed his role as trying to stretch out his options when giving Obama advice
Man of the Year: Gen. Raheel Sharif
Gen. Raheel Sharif is changing Pakistan forever.
From under-trial Pervez Musharraf’s hospitalization at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology on Jan. 2 to the attempt on news anchor Hamid Mir’s life on April 19 to the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in mid-June to the attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School on Dec. 16, the year past has been a period of extraordinary adjustments within Pakistan’s much disturbed civil-military equation.
The year began badly enough with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif putting off his handpicked new Army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, by pursuing the high-treason trial against former Army chief and president Musharraf. The prime minister also showed “excessive enthusiasm” for closer relations with India, attending the investiture of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister even as the Indian Army was killing civilians with mortar fire across the Line of Control in Kashmir.