Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199892709
The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end
Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the first comprehensive study of one of the Third World's most important armies. Professor Stephen P. Cohen has updated this well-known work for the fiftieth anniversary of independence.
Author : Brian Cloughley
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Pakistan
ISBN :
Author : Carey Schofield
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : 9781906447021
Schofield spent five years with the Pakistan army, accompanying them on maneuvers and getting to know key figures from junior soldiers to Kayani himself. For five years, she travelled everywhere with them. They even had a uniform made for her. "Inside the Pakistan Army" is the truth about the army's vital role as an ally in the war.
Author : Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : 9781786800114
Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan's military industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the economic and political landscape of the country. Military Inc. dares to illuminate the military as an oppressive holding company possessing not just security-related businesses, but also hotels, shopping malls, insurance companies, banks, farms and even an airline. The result is a deeply undemocratic society, where money is funnelled towards the military's economic enterprises, leaving those in need of it impoverished and effectively disenfranchised. With an empirical richness, and a view to Pakistan's recent history, Ayesha Siddiqa offers a detailed and powerful case study of a global phenomenon: corruption, hollow economic growth and elitism. This new edition includes a chapter on the recent developments of the military's foray into the media, and a new preface.
Author : Aqil Shah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0674728939
In sharp contrast to neighboring India, the Muslim nation of Pakistan has been ruled by its military for over three decades. The Army and Democracy identifies steps for reforming Pakistan’s armed forces and reducing its interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian control.
Author : Husain Haqqani
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0870032852
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with the United States and apprehending al Qaeda members has led to the assumption that Pakistan might be ready to give up its longstanding ties with radical Islam. But Pakistan's status as an Islamic ideological state is closely linked with the Pakistani elite's worldview and the praetorian ambitions of its military. This book analyzes the origins of the relationships between Islamist groups and Pakistan's military, and explores the nation's quest for identity and security. Tracing how the military has sought U.S. support by making itself useful for concerns of the moment—while continuing to strengthen the mosque-military alliance within Pakistan—Haqqani offers an alternative view of political developments since the country's independence in 1947.
Author : Hassan Abbas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317463285
This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with an historical overview of the introduction of Islam to the Indian sub-continent in 712 AD, and brings the story up to the present by describing President Musharraf's handling of the war on terror. He provides a detailed account of the political developments in Pakistan since 1947 with a focus on the influence of religious and military forces. He also discusses regional politics, Pakistan's attempt to gain nuclear power status, and U.S.-Pakistan relations, and offers predictions for Pakistan's domestic and regional prospects.
Author : Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783082984
This book focuses on the retrogressive agrarian interventions by the Pakistani military in rural Punjab and explores the social resentment and resistance it triggered, potentially undermining the consensus on a security state in Pakistan. Set against the overbearing and socially unjust role of the military in Pakistan’s economy, this book documents a breakdown in the accepted function of the military beyond its constitutionally mandated role of defence. Accompanying earlier work on military involvement in industry, commerce, finance and real estate, the authors’ research contributes to a wider understanding of military intervention, revealing its hand in various sectors of the economy and, consequently, its gains in power and economic autonomy.
Author : Shaukat Riza
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1997
Category : India-Pakistan Conflict, 1965
ISBN : 9788185019604
