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Your right to know Sunday, November 17, 2024


Brig Mahmood Sadiq (Retired)

The writer is a PhD scholar with diverse experience and international exposure. He possesses conscious knowledge about phenomenon of terrorism and extremism coupled with realistic understanding of geo political, social and security environment

Honourable apex court! Please continue

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The apex court of Pakistan witnessed a mob intrusion by ruling political party in 1997.After 17 years, the nation and the world also saw a ‘shalwar’ hanging for ‘drying purposes’ on the apex court’s boundary wall during PTI and PAT’s Dharna. Ironically, on both instances, Mian Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister of Pakistan. Now […]

Establishment, please

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Pakistan has now reached a stage where a national institution which is commonly referred to as ‘the establishment’, which is constitutionally responsible for protecting our territorial integrity and fighting a bloody war against terrorism is being criticised throughout the country both covertly and overtly. Keeping in view the timeframe of the forthcoming elections, this trend […]

Nawaz should show restraint

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Mian Muhammad Sharif (late) wouldn’t have thought in his wildest dreams that his son whom he always called ‘bhola’ (innocent) would become Pakistan’s PM thrice. The ladder used by him to bring his son in the political arena was provided by the then establishment. Unaware of street politics and gross root level political dynamics, Mian […]

Subordinating military to democracy in Pakistan

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A customary imperative in any democracy is a form of government where not only is the military’s involvement in politics non-existent but an elected civilian government has meaningful authority and control over policy making at the national level in all spheres. To the contrary, in Pakistan, it has either been total military control for over […]

Of civil-military control and subjugation

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A customary imperative in any democracy is the form of government where not only military’s involvement in politics is nonexistent but an elected civilian government has a meaningful authority and control over policy making at national level in all spheres. On the contrary, in Pakistan, it has either been total military control for over 30 […]

The tweet and its withdrawal

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Civilian institutions have not been developed over the years to handle national security issues as per public sentiments and the Army must share part of blame for this   The strongly worded tweet issued by the ISPR on April 29 has been withdrawn by the Army through a press release on May 10. For the […]