Why Pakistan's on the Brink of Collapse...

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Why is Pakistan always seemingly on the brink of collapse and why does it even matter if it did? In 2023 Pakistan faced inflation rates of 22% devaluing their money while having to fight off more than 3 times the amount of terrorist attacks than they faced in 2018. Creating a risk where if the country did collapse analysts warned terrorist groups could seize control of their 200 nuclear weapons like some kind of Tom Clancy novel. Destabilization here could have awful consequences not just for the Pakistani people but the entire world. I want to look at the role the Pakistani military has played in both trying to hold their country together and fueling its instability.

Written by: Chris Cappy & Josh Simpson
Edited by: Michael Michaelides

Between 1950 and 1965 both the US and Chinese military were largely responsible for building and training the Pakistan army. By 1954, the U.S Army helped them raise six armored regiments some of which exist to this day. US military Aid to Pakistan would peak in 1962 with 2.3 billion dollars worth of assistance. This is also when Pakistan first stepped up their cooperation with their neighbors in China. Since the 1963 Sino-Pakistan Agreement, the Pakistani military has had close relations with China. This unclassified CIA intelligence memorandum for the Nixon library says (pg7) Since large-scale Chinese military aid began in 1965, Pakistan has received 78 MIG-19 fighters and 12 IL-28 light bombers. Its armored forces have received 160 T--59 medium tanks and a srnall number of T--34s. China has reportedly delivered enough mortars and recoilless rifles to equip two infantry divisions and a number of l22-rnm. howitzers, anti aircraft guns, and trucks.

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sources:
https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/jul11/declass20.pdf
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/why-pakistan-always-seems-on-the-brink-of-collapse/
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/12/pakistan-economy-crisis-imf/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-militants-attacks-isis-tehreek-e-jihad-rcna94327
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/imran-khans-fall-mirrors-collapse-of-pakistan-state/articleshow/98496000.cms?from=mdr

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