Civil-Military Relations: A Comparative Study of Pakistan: From Barracks to Corporate Culture (Paths Toward Re-Democratization: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations

Abstract

This research report, mainly focus on the supremacy and evolution of military in Pakistan, giving out lines of short back ground of Pakistan’s political history before and offer independence. Scholarly focus on civil and military relations since 1947, military interventions in to the political domain and its withdrawals. Pakistan has seen four military coup, how and why these military regimes have ended, the conditions that led to end the Military Regimes in 1968, 1971, 1988 and 2008, causes were based upon the divergence of interests between the leaders of the military regime, who wanted to keep their strong ship on political power and the active leaders of the armed forces they seek to protect, promote and advance the corporate interests of military. Given Pakistan’s volatile relationship with India, centered on the decades-long conflict for control of Kashmir, Pakistan has always been a ‘security state’, and the national military has historically been a key player in the geopolitical arena. However, information on Pakistan’s armed forces is very limited, and interaction with Western civilian and military institutions is heavily controlled. The climate of secrecy within the Pakistan military and its associated security services directly and indirectly affects civil–military coordination and presents humanitarian actors with a highly complicated operational environment.