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Pakistani Debate Over Bajwa Doctrine

By Policy Research April 4, 2018

Pakistanis have spent weeks debating the Bajwa doctrine -a set of goals outlined by the country’s powerful military chief. While military doctrines are often understood as the set of principles guiding military forces in pursuing national security goals, list of aims of Pakistan’s powerful military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa is all-encompassing. Newspaper articles, opinion …

Pakistan: The More Things Change…

By Policy Research May 18, 2017

In October 2016, media reports claimed that Cyril Almeida, a journalist, had been barred from leaving the country. He had reported that the Nawaz Sharif Administration in Islamabad had ‘informed the military leadership of a growing international isolation of Pakistan and sought consensus on several key actions by the state’, a reference to the Pakistan’s …