Monday, 16 May 2016

The ever present civil-military acrimony in Pakistan (Sudhanshu Tripathi, South Asia Monitor)

It certainly looks clear that all is not going well in Pakistan between its civilian government and an all-time powerful army. With the recent Panama Paper leaks having landed the sons and daughters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s in the dock, the continuing war between the two centres of power as regards the claim to supremacy within the ruling circles of Pakistan has once again intensified. And, it is precisely the deepening chasm between the two that worries the entire world over the fear of a coup dislodging another civilian government from power in a country that has had a chequered political past

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=sl&nid=16983

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