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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicPakistani Military

Topic: Pakistani Military

New book explores divergent roles of Indian and Pakistani military in shaping democracy

ThePrint Team -
Published by Penguin India, ‘Poles Apart’ will be released on 25 July on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction book

Pakistan’s senior general, 5 other officers killed in helicopter crash during flood work

Suchet Vir Singh -
The chopper went down near Musa Goth in Lasbela district, Balochistan; the officers were supervising relief operations after heavy rains in the area.

Pakistanis in exile have a reason to worry. The threat’s coming from home

Heena Fatima -
The alert for the Pakistanis in exile comes after a London-based hitman was recently found guilty of conspiracy to murder a Pakistani dissident.

Pakistanis will outdo Indians in showing love for US, if only Trump stays hopeful and visits

Husain Haqqani -
Pakistan still measures close ties with US in terms of how much military assistance it can get. The leaders must change the talking points now.

Pakistan successfully test fires nuclear-capable missile Shaheen-I

Sajjad Hussain -
The Pakistani military test-fired Shaheen-I missile, which has a range of 650 kms, amid tensions between India and Pakistan over the scrapping of J&K's special status.

Pakistan’s mysterious ‘agriculture department’ is plumbing to new depths of censorship

Gul Bukhari -
Even as they have practiced unprecedented levels of self-censorship, channels have been taken off air and newspaper distribution disrupted.

Pakistan Army to take on role of strict invigilator for media ahead of elections

Chris Kay -
Army's dominance has raised concerns that Pakistan is backsliding democratically after Sharif's ouster. 

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Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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