The military's intervention in Pakistan's politics has been a long-standing tradition, starting from the former army chief General Pervez Musharraf upto the current general Asim Munir. The Pakistan army has had an impact on the rise and fall of political leaders, parties and ultimately the e
Shehbaz Sharif would fly to the UAE on Tuesday along with his Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari where they are expected to be joined by Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir, who is already on a trip to the middle east, sources confirmed to The Express Tribune newspaper on Sunday.
The Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Pakistan General Syed Asim Munir is on an official visit to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting Wednesday
The TTP and the Pakistani government announced the ceasefire in June this year. In recent weeks, Pakistan has witnessed a resurgence of militancy in northwest Pakistan.
While addressing the meeting of a delegation of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore, Khan said that the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir himself has said that he will remain neutral.
General Munir has his hands full with the TTP-Afghan Taliban, politics and internal dynamics of the army leadership. The TTP cannot be pushed back without dealing with the Afghan Taliban as it is the Taliban which is protecting the TTP.
An army's role around the world is to protect its country from perceived and actual threats and to ensure national security. But in Pakistan, where extortion and corruption are rife, the army takes on the role of the mafia.
For the first time, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday won the Rampur Sadar assembly seat, considered a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan when its candidate Akash Saxena defeated his nearest rival, Asim Raja.
Crickton said that Pakistan's military, considered to be the most institute in the country, has been the only stable and formidable institution even as the country "faced political, economic, judicial, and religious upheavals."
In response to the barbed remarks of newly appointed Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir on India, defence expert Qamar Agah said that Pakistan has made this kind of statement in the past as well in order to divert attention.
During a visit to the frontline troops of Line of Control (LoC) in Rakhchikri sector, Munir on Saturday said, "Let me make it categorically clear, Pakistan's armed forces are ever ready, not only to defend every inch of our motherland but, to take the fight back to the enemy, if ever, war