India Tensions Complicate Pakistan Pick for Next Army Chief

“Kashmir, which is in the midst of some of the worst unrest in years, will undoubtedly feature in Nawaz Sharif’s thinking,” said Emily Winterbotham, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. “The next army chief will also have to look internally at the extremist threat” and preside over the military’s withdrawal from operations in the tribal areas, she said.