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At the SCO Summit in Tianjin, it wasn’t Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the spotlight — it was Army Chief Asim Munir. Breaking precedent, Munir became the first serving army chief to attend the summit in this capacity, sitting in closed-door strategy sessions while Sharif played second fiddle. His back-to-back visits to China, high-level meetings in Beijing, and even his earlier audience with Donald Trump in Washington, all underline one truth: in Pakistan, the real power lies in khaki, not in parliament.

Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir in China | Vantage on Firstpost | N18G

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