How Aiding the Army Undermines Democracy The United States has a major stake in Pakistan’s stability, given the country’s central role in the U.S.-led effort to, in U.S. President Barack Obama’s words, “disrupt, dismantle, and defeat” al Qaeda; its …
July 5 is a “Black Day” (not necessarily the only one) in Pakistan’s political and constitutional history. Exactly 39 years ago on this day in 1977, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, then Chief of Army Staff (COAS), imposed martial law in the country and …