{"id":75481,"date":"2025-12-03T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/asim-munir-pakistan-army-chief"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:26:13","slug":"a-king-above-all-the-rise-and-rise-of-asim-munir-pakistans-increasingly-powerful-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75481","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A king above all\u2019: The rise and rise of Asim Munir, Pakistan\u2019s increasingly powerful army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as Trump\u2019s \u2018favourite field marshal\u2019, Munir\u2019s power now extends over all the armed forces, along with lifelong immunity from prosecution, thanks to a constitutional amendment<\/p>\n<p>Since it was penned in 1973, Pakistan\u2019s constitution has been dealt many blows. Originally a statement of democracy, it was just a matter of years before a pattern of endless constitutional amendments began, validating successive coups and military dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for the past 15 years, the constitution had \u2013 at least on the surface \u2013 returned Pakistan to some semblance of civilian rule. That was until last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/asim-munir-pakistan-army-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as Trump\u2019s \u2018favourite field marshal\u2019, Munir\u2019s power now extends over all the armed forces, along with lifelong immunity from prosecution, thanks to a constitutional amendmentSince it was penned in 1973, Pakistan\u2019s constitution has been dealt many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75481\/revisions\/75482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}