If you want an idea of the milieu they're operating in, this might provide some context (the former was published a couple of day before the NYT article).
Nothing is going to change until the people at the top realize power doesn't flow from a big stick, 20 kanals of land in Lahore DHA and Okara and a bunch of off the shelf American, French and Chinese military purchases without a defense research establishment to speak of.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1182200/more-lethal-than-raw
http://www.dawn.com/news/1182401/war-to-mould-minds
(the authors were colleagues at QAU)
Nothing is going to change until the people at the top realize power doesn't flow from a big stick, 20 kanals of land in Lahore DHA and Okara and a bunch of off the shelf American, French and Chinese military purchases without a defense research establishment to speak of.