updated Fri. December 1, 2023
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Hindustan Times
March 27, 2018
Q. Steve Coll's new book, Directorate S, refers to former Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani's demand that Afghanistan should end India's influence in the country. Your reaction. A. It's quite distressing to see the expectations of this nature from one neighbour to another neighbour. Can any country inÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 26, 2018
After Benazir's death, president Zardari was the chief advocate for civilian supremacy (as expected) while Sharif was again the captain of the establishment's B-team (starting from some time before the departure of Musharraf, it was Gen Ashfaq Kayani who was calling the shots now). Sharif couldn't haveÃâà...
The American Interest
March 22, 2018
But all evidence on the ground suggests that the “Bajwa Doctrine” is not fundamentally different from the “Kayani Doctrine,” named after General Ashfaq Kayani who served as Pakistan's army chief from 2007 to 2013. And the “Kayani Doctrine” did not differ in substance from the policies and premisesÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
March 20, 2018
For years, U.S. officials have wished that Pakistan's leaders would enumerate their own interests in Afghanistan in a way that could open the door to actual, serious bargaining. The Obama administration struggled with then-army chief General Ashfaq Kayani to explain what he really wanted from America.
Global Village space (blog)
March 14, 2018
In deference to the framework of CoD, the then PM Yusaf Raza Gilani made an effort to civilianize ISI by placing it under Ministry of interior in August 2008, but Gen Ashfaq Kayani foiled it. Memogate scandal which surfaced in October 2011 was designed to undercut the military and ISI and to tilt the balanceÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 6, 2018
(ISI chief Ashfaq) Kayani certainly does that in the narrative of 'Directorate S' in 2010 when he starts to wade in with this strategic dialogue and writes all these papers about what it would take to have a different relationship. And Pakistan during the Cold War had positioned itself as an essential interlocutorÃâà...
The New Indian Express
December 27, 2017
This was in 2011, soon after the killing of al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden by the US at his hideout in Pakistan, when in response to the national uproar the then army head honcho, General Ashfaq Kayani, showed up at a combined sitting of both Houses of the Parliament. But briefing the House was left to aÃâà...
The National
December 27, 2017
Sharif is regarded by many as tough, no-nonsense and principled, going where his predecessor Ashfaq Kayani feared to tread (Kayani had baulked at launching a military operation in North Waziristan in 2010, fearing a backlash from the religious right). He is considered a soldier through and through,Ãâà...
The Express Tribune
July 18, 2016
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has issued arrest warrants for Kamran Kayani, brother of former chief of army staff (COAS) General (retd) Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, over his alleged involvement in the DHA City Lahore scam worth over Rs16 million. “The inquiry so far conducted revealsÃâà...
The Express Tribune
December 31, 1999
ISLAMABAD .: A former military officer has approached the apex court with a petition against former army chief General (retd) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani over his alleged role in disbanding the legally-established Armed Forces Medical Store Depot, and for manufacturing, supplying, and procuring substandardÃâà...
