Shaukat Qadir, who taught many senior Pakistani generals at the country's National Defence University.

WSJ: Election Tests Role of Pakistan Military

However, Hamayoun Khan, of the National Defence University in Islamabad, insists that China's interest in Gwadar remains chiefly commercial.

ECONOMIST: More extremist attacks��and establishment fantasies

The meritocracy is inexorably turning into a matriarchy, and visibly so on many campuses: the heads of Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Brown and the National Defence University are all women.

ECONOMIST: Lexington