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Exit Strategy for Pakistan Army (ESPA)

The South Asia Tribune just published an interesting piece. Here's the blurb:

This is a considered paper written after long discussions between thinking friends to come up with concrete proposals to let the Army get out of politics. There could be no better way. link

While reading it, bear in mind that the Army bagged Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the minute he set foot back in Pakistan -- he'd been away for a family marriage and the meeting of most of the opposition parties -- both of which took place in Dubai, since if they'd taken place in Pakistan, arrests would have intervened on both a first family marriage, and an opposition meeting.

Something to re-read is an earlier piece, also in the SATrib. Deux vieu KGB schnooks thinking outloud about the original Beluchistan Liberation Army and real politick. It throws some water on the standard fictions concerning the US, Pakistan, and the calculus of illusions.

Another interesting piece in the SAT is Kaushik Kapisthalam's Guarding Pakistan's nuclear estate, which was published 10 days ago.

Posted by EBW at April 16, 2005 06:54 PM | TrackBack