In May of this year, when Osama Bin Laden was revealed to have been living in the tranquility of a suburb in Abbottabad, a stone’s throw from Pakistan’s premier military academy, it again brought to the surface underlying tensions between the Pakistani and American governments. The relationship between the militaries of the two countries is an old one, and the mutual suspicion is not new either. [...]
Kamran Asdar Ali
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Post Taliban Pakistan: A Tentative Recipe for Change
by Kamran Asdar AliNOTE: This article was originally written on September 17, 2001. It has been modified to incorporate the changing events of the past weeks. In December of 1971 the Pakistani army surrendered to the Indian Forces in East Pakistan/Bangladesh. As a result of its defeat and failed policies, the Pakistani military finally handed over power to […]
November 1, 2001