In Pakistan, the Military Sustains Its Dominance for Now

Violent unrest has given the generals the pretext to crack down on Imran Khan’s political apparatus.

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For over a year, the Pakistani military has been trying to solve a political problem of its own making: the ascendance of Imran Khan, whom it had all but installed as a proxy for its own political designs in 2018. The ongoing crackdown on Khan’s movement in the wake of the May 9 violence is […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari