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Ayesha Siddiqa

Military Inc

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“This bold book explains why it will be so difficult to persuade the Pakistani military to renounce political power and return to the barracks. It is a must read for anyone who cares about Pakistan or its future.” Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

“Siddiqa demonstrates [how] economic impunity and political impunity are closely related.”
Nicole Ball, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, Washington DC «No one else has so comprehensively [explained] the army’s involvement in Pakistan’s economy, nor linked it so clearly with the army’s growing and seemingly permanent role in Pakistan’s politics.» Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings

“Complex, riveting, absorbing, Siddiqa has written a vitally important book which enhances our understanding of the army on the front line in the war on terror.”
Ahmed Rashid, Far Eastern Economic Review

“An incisive look at the largely hidden economic empire run by and for the benefit of Pakistan's military. This courageous book will not please Pakistan's generals. But no Pakistani, civilian or military, can afford to ignore its sobering analysis.” Robert M. Hathaway, Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the “war on terror”. It is the third largest receiver of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army.

Siddiqa shows how the power of the military has transformed Pakistani society, where the armed forces have become an independent class. The military is entrenched in the corporate sector. So Pakistan's companies and its main assets are in the hands of a tiny minority of senior army officials. Siddiqa examines this military economy and the consequences of merging the military and corporate sectors. Does democracy have a future? Will the generals ever withdraw to the barracks? Military Inc. analyses the internal and external dynamics of this gradual power-building and the impact that it is having on Pakistan's political and economic development.
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  • Muhammadцитираминалата година
    The general public is made to believe that the defence budgetary allocation and the ‘internal economy’ are a small price to pay for guaranteeing security. Threats are often consciously projected to justify spending on the military.

    As does the pakistani armed forces in their constant need of showing India as if they're just about to invade and destroy us, as if Indra Gandhi couldn't have done this when Indian Army was in Bangladesh and whence she was given a proposal by the chief of the Indian armed forces to do so but she declined, called a meeting of her cabinet and convinced everyone to vote against this proposal. As if the fastest growing economy on the planet for the buerocrats the rich and the technocrats of the country would ever let perfom an action like this that could put Indias position on the world stage in jeopardy, they gain today by showing Kashmir as a disputed territory originally belonging to them but infading pakistan is an illegal act that sould shun their position on the world stage.

  • Muhammadцитираминалата година
    This military capital is lethal not only because it increases the armed forces’ penetration in the economy, but also because of the power it gives the top echelons of the security establishment. The senior generals (both serving and retired) are the primary beneficiaries of the internal economy. The whole economic process of benefits is structured in such a manner that those at top received the bulk. So Milbus cannot be held as benign financial compensation to the guardians of the state’s frontiers.

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