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No, what I am saying is that the Sardar’s and waderas (whether Balochistan, Sindh or elsewhere), whether in government or fighting the State, are in power BECAUSE of the Fauj. If the Fauj actually acted in aid of the judiciary or genuine political leadership to root out obvious crimes by these...

Commenting to highlight the abuses and repression condoned by the Fauj, in the light of continued violent attacks in Balochistan. Terrorism is not the answer, but neither is the Fauj’s repression and support for pro-Fauj brutal warlords and so called ‘good terrorists’.

What I expect the Fauj to do is to stop being bastards, stop violating the constitution and go back to their fucking barracks and accept civilian supremacy and allow this god forsaken country to start the long and arduous path towards a functioning democracy. Whatever began first, the Fauj has...

The first part is true. The last part has been shown to be completely wrong - protecting a country from external enemies does not even come close to the damage the Fauj has done internally to the country. And oft used example, of the Soviet Union’s collapse, comes to mind. The USSR was a...

After what the Fauj has done against the PTI and democracy in general since the days of Ayub Khan, I wouldn’t put all the blame on the Baloch rebels. The Fauj has propped up corrupt sardars in Balochistan and there are a lot of reports of the Fauji generalissimos utilizing smuggling in...

@Mirzali Khan It should be marked as a day of protest against the fascism of the Fauj, not a black day. August 14th isn’t tied to the Fauj, it is tied to the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and therefore should continue to be respected, even if we choose not to celebrate it as a sign of...

The Diary, true or not, will have no impact now. Had the PTI government been allowed to complete its constitutional term and performed poorly, perhaps such below the belt tactics might have worked with people looking for a scapegoat, but at this point everyone knows that the real fascists and...

That ‘intellectual inbreeding’ has been going on for decades now under the Fauji martial laws, political manipulations and the PMLN+PPP. The tide of opinions against decades of inbreeding is what you see now. For example, there are no defensible ‘two points of view’ about racism or slavery...

The Fauj won’t give up nuclear weapons, not because it cares about the prosperity and strength of the country, but because nuclear weapons, and specifically the Fauj’s control over nuclear weapons, allows it to blackmail the international community into supporting the fascist Junta inside...

The rise of the TTP was/is a complex issue that didn’t have just one or two factors behind it. Socio-economic deprivation in the region, the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s support for proxies in Afghanistan that leveraged FATA for logistics, shelter and manpower, the unfettered spread of...

The answer is simple - outright cowardice, corruption and incompetence at the highest levels of the Pakistan Fauj. This cowardice and incompetence was demonstrated when Bajwa was reluctant to strike back at India post Balakot and pushed for an early release of Abhinandan. When the Fauji high...

While interesting, please leave the theological discussions for another thread.

Thats not called a vote bank, its called ‘election rigging’ and patronage politics to get out a small core of the voter base to whom the corrupt elite dole out favors in some cases and throw scraps at for others (bussing in poor barely surviving people to vote in exchange for biryani). You did...

Of course - From Ayub Khan to the butchers in East Pakistan to massacres in former FATA to now, the Fauj can only win wars against unarmed Pakistani civilians by torturing and murdering them. Against the Indians they love to just surrender and shite their pants.

I understand your skepticism. I will however point you to an article (link to the thread at the end of this post) in the Friday times. The publication is owned by Najam Sethi who is extremely close to Nawaz Sharif. Sethi has a colorful past (fought against the Army in the early Baloch...

The only ‘silver lining’ in articles like these is that they make clear (if it wasn’t already) how the Fauj has continued to commit treason & violate the constitution by manipulating and rigging the political process and elections. It also makes clear how the Fauj & traditional dynastic...

That is precisely where you’re either ignorant or deliberately being disingenuous - nothing like what is occurring now happened during IK’s time in government. Feel free to provide examples detailing a similar crackdown on the PMLN and/or PPP during IK’s government. The Foreign Policy article...

I did not. Link by any chance?

No, it is not a violation of the constitution if done based on the views of legal experts - the issue goes to court, the court rules and only at that point if any of the parties refuses to follow the court orders could it be considered a violation. Had the issue been clear cut, the Supreme...