Taming the Army in Pakistan

Taming the Army in Pakistan Dhananjoy AS expected, Pakistan is going through a phase of crises and convulsions. And there is no light yet at the end of the tunnel which Bhutto has entered. What precisely the latest changes in the Pakistani armed forces mean is anybody's guess and many of the theories propounded in the Indian Press may be more in the nature of expression of the instinctive distrust and suspicion of anything that takes place across the borders. All that one can say with any degree of certainty is that the political instability in Pakistan continues and that many more dramatic developments could take place before the new Pakistan finds its feet as a state.