{
    "byline": "By Abid Hussain",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "dir": null,
    "excerpt": "Islamabad, Pakistan \u2014 Pakistan\u2019s parliament in late August passed legislation that, for the first time, spells out in statute the powers of the country\u2019s most senior military office, continuing a restructuring of the military\u2019s command structure that began with last November\u2019s 27th constitutional amendment.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 12086,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "Why Pakistan overhauled its military command structure after five decades"
}