PPP and PMLN have, by turns, tried to change the national security narrative of the state to better manage both “normal” relations with India and also improve the lot of the people by limiting the relentless growth of defense expenditures and spending more on social welfare. But both have been punished and outcast by the […]
168SharesLast weekend, Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javaid Bajwa invited nearly 30 TV anchors and journalists to an informal, frank dialogue on regional security, peace with India and other issues of concern that included the ongoing political developments and media freedoms. No official record of the meeting has been shared as the rendezvous was ‘off the […]
On the Pakistani side, General Bajwa now seems to think that without “putting our own house in order first”, there isn’t much to gain by beating the war drums against the old arch-enemy. How he intends to do that has escaped even his hard core supporters, forget the hounded political opposition in the country that […]