A new prime minister was elected last year in the Islamic Republic. The former cricket star, playboy and hospital builder took the oath of office last August amidst much fanfare. He swore to create an ...
The Prime Minister surprised more than one person by saying that the military had agreed to voluntarily reduce defense spending to reduce the budget deficit. Imran added that reduced defense spending would be used to ...
Ahmad Faruqui in this article analyses Ishtiaq Ahmed’s book ‘Pakistan – The Garrison State’. “The book should be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in analysing Pakistan’s travails and its love affair with ...
Ahmad Faruqui in this article details how the unfulfilled promises are taking a toll on the incumbent government’s popularity. However, he feels that things can still improve if Imran Khan makes some basic changes to ...
Ahmad Faruqui in this article reviews Aqil Shah’s 2014 book ‘The Army and Democracy’ which discusses the history of civil-military relations in Pakistan. Pakistan’s first military ruler, General (and later Field Marshal) Ayub Khan told ...
Kargil has captivated the minds of political and military thinkers in Pakistan for two decades now. The catastrophic military debacle that led to the overthrow of Nawaz Sharif’s second government in October 1999 is also ...
In 2016, Ahmad Faruqui interviewed an expat Pakistani whose rejection of Pakistan’s traditional political parties and lionizing of Imran Khan and men in khaki define contemporary politics of the country. A few years back, I ...
We had just walked across the iconic Bridge on the River Kwai in Thailand when we discovered a man playing music and singing songs on request. He asked us where we were from. When we ...
Ahmad Faruqui in this article tries to determine the odds of a “hard” coup in case the current government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf fails to improve the economy and the overall political stability of the ...
General Musharraf was the last of the four army generals who have ruled Pakistan, so far. In this third part of his Myth of Indispensability series, Ahmad Faruqui explains how Musharraf, convinced of his indispensability, ...
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