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Pakistan s Military Involvement In The Nagorno-Karabakh War
February 9, 2021 | By Tufail Ahmad
On October 2, 2020, the government of Pakistan sought to deny media reports that Pakistani soldiers were aiding the Azeri military against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh war (September 27-November 10, 2020). The Pakistani newspapers of the next morning, October 3, quoted Zahid Hafeez Chaudri, the spokesman of the Foreign Office in Islamabad, as saying that such media reports were speculative and baseless and irresponsible. [1]
After this official denial of involvement, Pakistani journalists came under increased pressure not to write about the Pakistani military s role in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. In this paper, I will examine the Pakistani view of Pakistan s role in this war in which Azerbaijan defeated Armenia with the military help of Turkey and Pakistan. The Nagorno-Karabakh is a region where about 1,000 mujahideen from Afghanistan went to fight in the early years of the 1990s, a