The Deep Malaise Afflicting Pakistan’s Security Establishment

The campaign against Imran Khan’s party is tearing the country’s most effective institutions apart.

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After decades of dominating the state, Pakistan’s national security establishment has succumbed to the sort of political strife that has wracked the country throughout its nearly 80-year history. On Aug. 12, the Pakistani military announced that it had arrested the recently retired head of the country’s premier intelligence service and initiated court martial proceedings against […]

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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