The Battle for Pakistan by Shuja Nawaz

Author:Shuja Nawaz [Nawaz, Shuja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789353056216
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2019-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

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But it seemed that history was to repeat itself. The prime minister and his coterie assumed they had the new army chief on their side in the crafting of a timetable for tackling the militancy inside the country. They miscalculated the reactions of the new chief. Unlike Kayani, who weighed things over a period of time before acting, the new chief acted with alacrity soon after taking over and responded with full force when militants in North Waziristan killed a number of soldiers in an ambush. This rejuvenated the spirits of the more than 40,000-strong force that had been posted in that agency of FATA in a wait-and-see mode. I had observed earlier during my own visit to the area that,

In North Waziristan, the land of the Ahmedzai Wazir and the Daur tribes, and home also to the Haqqani group of the Afghan Taliban, the army adopted what a senior military officer derisively called a policy of sitzkrieg—meaning, sitting in camps without any aggressive actions. The army described its passive stance as ‘dominating space’. 20

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