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The recent impressive performance of Pakistan’s armed forces against a formidable adversary, enjoying favorable distribution of conventional forces, a 10-times larger economy, six times in population, a leading global exporter of IT and IT-enabled services, having huge forex reserves of over $600 billion, has made the nation proud. The question that needs to be answered is: How come the performance of our military (1971 being an exception) has been so consistently superior compared to our civilian institutions? Why is the gap between these two parallel tracks — military and civil — widening and why have there been no synergies between the two? Foreign observers have noted that it was not superior equipment, missiles, satellites, radar, drones etc placed at our disposal by China but the high standards of training, exemplary professionalism, commendable utilisation and timely integration of all equipment and use of real-time digital data and cyberspace control that led to Pakistan’s superior outcome.

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Dawn

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5-29-2025

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