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...Afghan Taliban, even if it decided to do so. The Pakistani army is overstretched in operations against its own Taliban...defeated if it opened another front. Moreover, the Pakistani army is suffering from an image problem with its own public...
...orders of the military command, a point former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf often emphasized. The current Pakistani army chief, army Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, was director of the ISI under Musharraf, and he headed the organization during...
...about the destabilization of a nuclear-armed Muslim country. The Pentagon places a high priority on helping the Pakistani army combat a growing insurgency by the Taliban, al-Qaida and their allies. Yet Mr. Musharraf's insistence on fighting...
...memory is as long as its punishing arm. To have discovered that bin Laden hid in plain sight on the periphery of a Pakistani army installation only 100 miles distant from Islamabad, the country's capital, confirmed long-held suspicions of...
...Indeed, Afghan Taliban leaders and the Pakistani military clearly have no love, or trust, for each other. The Pakistani army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, pulled out a thick, stapled sheaf of papers listing 434 Afghan Taliban who...
...Development was to reconstruct 115 schools destroyed in Pakistan's Swat Valley two years ago in fighting between the Pakistani army and the Pakistani Taliban. To date, not a single school has been completed. Beyond efficiency issues, the aid...
...I was younger. My family and I visited when I was 12 or 13 because my uncle, a former Pakistani army major, was stationed there with the Pakistani army. Not only is Abbottabad a tourist attraction, it's also a cantonment for the military...
...with Kayani," Mullen said, "we are looking for ways to assist where they want to be assisted." So far, the Pakistani army hasn't asked for more counterinsurgency training. (It does want U.S. night-vision equipment and helicopters...
...over weak, incompetent or corrupt ones. Musharraf was able to rule Pakistan for almost a decade only because the Pakistani army, his base of support, is the most cohesive institution in a state that's otherwise a basket case. Zimbabwe is...