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Pakistan is Under Soft Martial Law

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March 7, 2022 and it takes 5 minutes to read.

India does not seek to annex Pakistan
Pakistan initiated all wars with India
Kashmir could have been negotiated
The 1971 war was militarily irrational
Pakistan did not require nuclear weapons
The nuclear program endangers national security
The economic cost of atomic ambition is crushing

Asghar Khan was no foreign agent. He was a three-star air marshal, historian, and peace activist—someone the system could not easily dismiss.

Martial Law Apologists and the Father Analogy

Those who romanticize martial law deserve only one response:

“Agar baap se nahi banti, to kya baap ko ghar se nikaal kar chowkidar ko abu kehna shuru kar dete ho?”

Replacing civilian failure with military rule is not reform—it is abandonment.

Judiciary for Sale, Accountability for None

Pakistan’s crisis is not merely political—it is constitutional.

A judiciary pressured to align with power, an establishment claiming neutrality while engineering outcomes, and laws applied selectively have produced a nation that is managed, not governed.

As one general candidly admitted: humiliating the Supreme Court risks national collapse. Yet history tells us that ballot stuffing, ISI funding, and engineered elections were once standard practice—sponsored by the very architects now claiming reform.

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