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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Defending the Constitution

Book recommendations:
1. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks)
2. Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy

By Yasser Latif Hamdani

Pakistan’s armed forces are a wing of the Federal Government of Pakistan, which controls defence (through Chapter 2 of Part XII of the Constitution of 1973 and the federal legislative list) as a purely federal subject. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the army, air and navy chiefs are appointed public servants carrying out responsibilities that fall in the purview of defence.