Pakistan's New Power Equation: Munir's Five-year Power Grab

Five more years in uniform. Immunity for life. Asim Munir isn't just Pakistan's most powerful general: he may be its most powerful man in five decades. The civilian government, in true Pakistani tradition, is toothless. This week on Faultlines: how did one soldier concentrate this much power in Rawalpindi, right down to the command that controls Pakistan's nukes? What does it mean for India, sitting next door to a nuclear-armed military that answers to almost no one?

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