Pakistan army unlikely to see internal Islamist coup
The 'Zia generation' of army officers is rising to top posts raising questions about their position on violent jihad
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- Emergence of the 'Zia generation'
- Military and Islamic piety
- The military, political Islam and jihadis
- Domestic interests
- Afghan experiment
- Good and bad jihadis
- Institutionalised engagement with jihadis
- Islamist coup?
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_350.jpg "A classroom at the Mashal de-radicalisation centre run by the Pakistani army in Gulibagh (Reuters/Mian Khursheed)")