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Pakistan: Corps is Ill-Equipped for 'War on Terror'

| December 11, 2007

"A major overhaul of the Frontier Corps in terms of its mandate, service conditions, new training facilities and improved promotion prospects has the potential to rejuvenate the force. However, this is a long-term project, and there is little prospect that it can be transformed quickly to tackle the menace of Talibanisation."

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For Academic Citation: Abbas, Hassan. “Pakistan: Corps is Ill-Equipped for 'War on Terror'.” Oxford Analytica, December 11, 2007.

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