Pakistan's Military Faces Calls for Major Shakeup after Bin Laden Failure
Ahmed, Issam, The Christian Science Monitor
The Pakistan Army faces a rising domestic backlash, but the public relations disaster could provide a rare and overdue chance to mend broken civil-military relations, analysts say.
Four days after US Navy SEALs swooped deep into Pakistani territory to carry out a daring, 40-minute raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan Army is facing a rising domestic backlash.
Observers normally reluctant to criticize the military - this country's most powerful and popular institution - are now publicly asking why Pakistan's main intelligence agency apparently had no knowledge of Mr. bin Laden's presence and why the military appeared to be caught unaware of the US …
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Article title: Pakistan's Military Faces Calls for Major Shakeup after Bin Laden Failure.
Contributors: Ahmed, Issam - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: May 5, 2011.
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