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General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Pakistan’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, recently made a statement in which he talked about India’s so-called “politicised military" and “militarised polity". The irony could not have been sharper.

General Mirza represents the most militarised nation on earth—where generals anoint prime ministers, court rulings are dictated under duress, and torture cells serve the interests of the uniform.

And yet he had the audacity to lecture the world’s largest democracy on civil-military balance. This staggering hypocrisy can be better understood when one scrutinises Pakistan’s military establishment. It is a well-established fact that the Pakistan military has been the most powerful centre in a country that is falling apart a

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