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How Pakistan's politico-economic crisis can be an opportunity in disguise for India
Ninad D Sheth •India’s economic growth and eventually enhanced military spending will make Pakistan increasingly less relevant to India's security and wellbeing
Pakistan strikes back at Iran: Who has the stronger military?
Fp Explainers •A day after Iran launched an attack against Pakistan, Islamabad retaliated with its own operation. The actions have fuelled fears of a full-blown conflict between the two nations. Here’s a comparison of their militaries — from land assets to missile capabilities
Suicide bombing in Pakistan military base kills 23
Fp Staff •The early-morning attack targeted a base in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border, according to a local official who spoke on condition of anonymity
What is Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, the group that attacked Pakistan air force base?
Fp Explainers •Pakistan’s Mianwali air force base in Punjab province was attacked by Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan terrorists Saturday. The relatively new militant group aims to wage jihad against the country, turn it into an Islamic state, and impose a theocratic version of Sharia law like Taliban did in Afghanistan
Pakistan military’s economic fortunes skyrocket amidst economic crisis
Arun Anand •While the Pakistani military elite profits from the country’s economic misery, common Pakistani lives continue to bear the brunt of Pakistan’s economic mismanagement by the military-controlled establishment
Pakistan PM admits military influence in politics, says it will continue unless civic delivery institutions strengthened
Fp Staff •The powerful Army, which has ruled coup-prone Pakistan for more than half of its 75-plus years of existence, has hitherto wielded considerable power in matters of security and foreign policy.
Explained: Why Pakistan is in crisis as its military seeks to edge out Imran Khan
Fp Explainers •Imran Khan and his supporters have launched an unprecedented challenge to Pakistan's military, which has held sway over the country since independence in 1947. It has been in power for three of those decades and has wielded extraordinary influence even with a civilian government in office
Pok: Under eyes of Pakistan military, locals recruited for 'Jihad' in Kashmir
•Pakistan's to garner anti-India support from 56 Muslim countries to condemn the action taken by the Modi government and the failure to provide PoK with essentials of living has for the first time made the people of PoK realise that Pakistan is no big brother or 'loyal' to the cause of Kashmir.
President Alvi rushes to Lahore to consult Imran Khan over appointments of top military brass
•Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier in the day sent a summary to the president for appointing Lt Gen Munir as the next army chief and Lt Gen Mirza as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
WATCH: 50 years on, Pakistan Army still exorcising the ghost of 1971 surrender
Fp Staff •The statement by Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa is the latest in the slew of attempts by the country's army to cover up its history of killing unarmed civilians in Bangladesh