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The Indian sub-continent may witness yet Soleimani’s
another cycle of US-Pakistani cooperation, this
time against Iran. The Pakistani establishment
was eagerly awaiting an opportunity to
regain the US favours. The assassination
of the Iranian- general, Soleiman, appears
to rekindled hope to the almost bankrupt,
Pakistan, that soon US financial and military
support will be coming to the country. Its
leaders have decided to prepare themselves
to be an ally with the US to wade through the
current economic crisis and challenges, though
its democratic institutions may be losing their
January 26, India is going to celebrate seven co-operation
relevance.
During the last week of this month
decades of her existence as a parliamentary
constitutional democracy, but her twin brother,
Pakistan, fragmented in 1971, in its 73 years
of nationhood, has democratically signed the
epitaph of its fragile democracy. A resolution R bring country’s most powerful leaders under the cor-
was passed with overwhelming majority
with except two or three dissenting voices in
Pakistan’s parliament reaffirming civilian
subjugation to the might of armed forces.
Expressing her anguish on the behavior of the
spineless members of the House, Reham Khan,
a former wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan
bemoaned, “We are witnessing the funeral
cortege of democracy yet we are clapping as it
is an event to celebrate festivities.”
Reham Khan, a television celebrity, who
now lives in London, is yet to join Pakistan’s
murky political scene, but she represents the
conscience of the country’s civil society. Her
book had receive worldwide attention, when
she exposed the “real face” of the cricketer-
turned politician, Imran Khan, in her book, a
sort of her personal biography, published just
before the general elections in the country,
reports gopal misra
assassination
heralds
renewed US,
Pakistan
eham Khan’s narrative reveals the dramatic personae
in the tricky power play in the country’s political sce-
nario. Imran Khan dilutes the powers of the National
Accountability Bureau (NAB), which could successfully
ruption laws, got them convicted, but they are out of the prison
under the pretext of treatment. Nawaz Sharif, a former Prime
Minister and the undisputed leader of the Pakistan Muslim League
(Noon) is in London under medical care. Asif Ali Zardari, a former
President of Pakistan and husband of the slain leader, Benazir
Bhutto, has already been released for medical treatment. Among
the top leaders awaiting permission to go abroad is Maryam Sharif,
daughter of Nawaz.
The voice of the civil society came to the fore when the Paki-
stani Supreme Court had cancelled the extension of the army chief
General Qamar Javed Bajwa and asked the government to formu-
late a system to give extension to an army chief. The process of
the amendment in the law triggered off following the telephonic
conversation between US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo
and General Bajwa amidst the growing tensions in the West Asia.
Pompeo confirmed his conversation in his twitter that “I spoke to
Chief of the Army Staff, General Bajwa, about the US defensive ac-
tion killing Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general branded a terror
sponsor by the US.
Before the September 11 attacks in 2001, Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia were key supporters of the Taliban in Afghanistan, as part
of their “strategic depth” objective vis-a-vis India, Iran, and Russia.
During the post 9/11, Pakistan, led by General Pervez Musharraf,
reversed the earlier policy of supporting Talibans and openly sup-
ported the United States. It joined the “War on Terror” as a U.S. ally
to provide the U.S. a number of military airports and bases for its
attack on Afghanistan, along with other logistical support. Pakistan
arrested over five hundred Al-Qaeda members and handed them
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