The nuclear weapons programme should have marked the end of Pakistan’s
praetorian state, but it has only entrenched it even further and
emboldened it to pursue proxy-based warfare that has come back to hurt
Pakistan
Pakistan is not a republic, nor is it a theocracy;
rather it is a praetorian state. A praetorian state is one where
political power is concentrated in the hands of a select elite within
the military. Hasan Askari Rizvi, a prominent analyst, writes: “Pakistan
can be desc...
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