Understanding what really happened after July 5, 1977: It was 4th July 1977 , Lieutenant General Iqbal Khan told his headquarters staff that finally at last Mr Z.A Bhutto and the opposition alliance PNA had reached an amicable peace settlement. My father, a newly promoted brigadier, was one of this staff. On 5th July 1977 General Zia , the army chief handpicked by Prime...
Author Archives: Agha H Amin
Badly checkmated by Russia,Iran and India in north and west Afghanistan , duped by the Pakistani military in the south and east of Afghanistan , US strategy remains directionless at best and vaccillating , procrastinating and supremely indecisive at worst in Afghanistan. All along since US occupied Afghanistan it has failed to act decisively against Taliban,Islamic extremists,Drug...
The concrete solution of Pakistans problems is social justice and end of corruption of politicians and military. A vain hope ? If that does not happen countless military operations will fail.Already the waziristan operation has failed.Now who will do it? Not the politicians? A violent coup by a minority political or military (not the army chief) may be the solution. Meanwhile...
Since Pakistans Foreign Minister does not control a substantial part of Pakistans Foreign Policy , i.e the Afghanistan and India policy ,thus the visit of Pakistans army chief to USA for a so called strategic dialogue. The word strategic would be a bit inflated since in reality Pakistan does the tactical garbage collection for USA. Pakistan’s military establishment...
While it is theoretically neat and cosmetically nice to advance the view point that the USA should withdraw from Afghanistan. The idea is far complicated at the strategic and operational level. While it is true that the Pakistan and US sponsored so called Mujahideen did not follow the USSR into Russia,their successors the Taliban were allied with parties with a Pan Islamist...
In the last seven years or so the USA at the strategic,operational and tactical level has became a laughing stock for the world. Much of what is advanced in this brief analysis may seem abstract but it is substantial and addresses core issues strategic,operational and tactical. Starting from the premise that both USA’s total failure or total success would not be good...
Afghanistan has been the subject of misconceptions par excellence as far as Pakistani analysts and Pakistani policy makers are concerned. First it is a misconception to state that Pakistan has all the cards to dictate the future policy in Afghanistan. While it is true that a large number of Taliban in South Afghanistan , depend on Pakistani states largesse in relying...