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In Pakistan’s politics, the only constant is the man in uniform, while everything else is temporary

SONAM MAHAJAN

For a country where every Prime Minister has fallen to a general’s whim, Pakistan’s sermon on India’s ‘militarised politics’ is a masterclass in denial. The world’s most coup-prone army claiming moral authority over India’s civilian institutions. The irony is not just rich; it is institutionalised.

Pakistan Army General Sahir Shamshad Mirza recently claimed that India’s Army is politicised and its politics militarised. This is a statement coming from an institution that has toppled pretty much every major civilian government in Pakistan’s history, dictated foreign policy, engineered elections, and quite literally decided who can and cannot become Prime Minister

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