HeyJaredPakistan Paigham
Commentary on Pakistan’s political power struggles, security dynamics, foreign policy, military-industrial nexus, and insurgencies.
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The Many Moving Parts of the Makkah Pact (opens the original)
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The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), signed by Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, faces its first test in West Asia. The details of the pact still remain under wraps; however, the defining feature that declares that an armed attack on one “shall be regarded as an attack against them all” appears to be more conditional in practice than the language suggests. The agreement in its current form sits atop existing bilateral relationships, the Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement o
Twenty-Five Years After 9/11 Pakistan’s American Reckoning (opens the original)
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On September 12, 2001, then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell made a phone call to Islamabad that would go on to decide the next quarter-century of Pakistan’s foreign policy. Powell asserted to then Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan had to choose between standing with the US or being treated as a hostile state. In a more aggressive narrative of events, in his 2006 memoir In the Line of Fire, Musharraf claimed that US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage threatened
The Paradox of Jinnah's Pakistan (opens the original)
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It has been 79 years since India and Pakistan emerged as two separate nations following the ouster of colonial rule. Prime Ministers on both sides of the border will adhere to traditional state protocols, delivering speeches about the glories and failures of the past and the greater marvels that await the future. This time, ritually, will also invoke pockets of social media algorithms to recall the anecdotes of Partition. Often accompanied by sentimental music, stories of people nostalgising abo
Why Pakistan Can’t Have Its Cockroach Janta Party Moment (opens the original)
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The youth-led protests that kindled at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and spread to other parts of India were watched curiously, and perhaps with some envy, from across the border. Although this remains anecdotal and entirely an offering of my social media algorithm, it seemed like the fervent anti-government sentiments percolated through the borders, instigating conversations among Pakistani content creators. Most of these monologues (read: rants) concluded in defeatist narratives with little to no hope
The Song That Outlived an Election (opens the original)
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Every election has slogans; some have songs; however, only a handful of them may outlive the politicians for whom they were written.The story is no different in Pakistan. Political anthems have often been limited to pre-poll campaigns – blaring from loudspeakers on the streets, stitched to rallies, and forgotten once ballots are counted. That said, ever so often, some songs transcend electoral politics to become part of the country’s cultural memory – and beyond. Dil Teer Bija<sp
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