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Military—Jihadi Complex: Gun to the head

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Post by rawemotions Sat Mar 25, 2017 11:29 pm

https://nationalinterest.in/military-jihadi-complex-s16e2-gun-to-the-head-db18eac0db1c?source=collection_home---1------6-----------

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The rent-seeking prowess of the Pakistani Military—Jihadi Complex (MJC) is well documented. A line in Stephen Cohen’s The Idea of Pakistan summarises this ability best:

Pakistan now negotiates with its allies and friends by pointing a gun to its own head. [The Idea of Pakistan, page 270]
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The question then is: what are the options available to the MJC going ahead?


Tilak Devasher’s new book Pakistan: Courting the Abyss lists the following options that might be pulled out by the MJC in order to sustain its role as a useful actor for the US.

There are several options: to project the arrival of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan or of the AQIS as a real threat to peace; midwifing the Afghan peace talks; accelerating the tactical nuclear weapons programme; and if all else fails, the old strategy of creating another Indo-Pak crisis [..].

The first two options are now beginning to play out in the open. On March 6th, a report in The Express Tribune quoted a namaloom senior Pakistani army source who pulled out the both the big cards — ISIS and Russia — in a desperate attempt to gain US attention.

We have told Gen Mattis that Afghanistan is slipping out of control, and that if things are not put right, America will have a huge crisis on its hands. Da’ish is also developing there, and if they leave Syria and Iraq, the next place for them to gather in is Afghanistan. [..]

If IS and the Taliban continued to gain strength, he added, it could tempt Russia to stage a Syrian-style intervention, this time on the pretext of protecting its ‘backyard’ in Central Asia. [The Express Tribune, 6 March 2017]

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