{"id":30263,"date":"2012-01-12T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm-pakistans_growing_civilian-military_showdown\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:50:42","slug":"csm-pakistans_growing_civilian-military_showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30263","title":{"rendered":"CSM&#8211;Pakistan&#39;s growing civilian-military showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s civilian government fired its Defense Secretary Wednesday in a rare show of defiance against the country&#8217;s powerful Army, which had earlier publicly rebuked Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and ignited speculation the government may fall.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Lt. Gen. Naeem Khalid Lodhi, a senior bureaucrat seen as close to the Army, was dismissed by the government for \u201cgross misconduct and illegal action.\u201d\u009d He was replaced by a bureaucrat close to the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not yet clear whether Pakistan\u2019s powerful Army will be sufficiently moved to launch a coup and directly rule the country as it has done for approximately half of Pakistan\u2019s 65 year history. But if Mr. Gilani&#8217;s defiance pays off, that could indicate a boost for the country\u2019s democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-South-Central\/2012\/0111\/Pakistan-s-growing-civilian-military-showdown-video\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s civilian government fired its Defense Secretary Wednesday in a rare show of defiance against the country&#8217;s powerful Army, which had earlier publicly rebuked Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and ignited speculation the government may fall. Retired Lt. Gen. Naeem<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30263\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,503,201,143,149,144,481,114,343,151,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}