CLAWS Journal Article - Constraining the Pakistani Military-Jihadi Complex In a Post-COVID World

Indo-Pacific StudiesStrategic Studies
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This is a draft of a paper published in Scholar Warrior (ISSN: 2319-7331, Autumn 2020), a Centre for Land and Warfare Studies Publication.

Abstract

This paper surveys four major developments that impact the Pakistani Military-Jihadi Complex (MJC) in the recent months — change in MJC’s external benefactors, the US-Taliban Peace Agreement, India’s revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan’s economic downturn. The paper then analyses these developments using a contingency planning framework. Each development is mapped to risks and opportunities for the MJC, and hence to India. Based on these risks and opportunities, measures to constrain the MJC in the short and medium terms are derived.

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Pranay Kotasthane
Pranay Kotasthane

Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution. Pranay’s current research includes high tech geopolitics and the politics of radically networked societies. Pranay teaches public policy, international relations, and public finance at Takshashila’s graduate and post-graduate programmes.

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