This report is the second in the series and shifts from hardware to power. It examines how the April–May 2025 crisis with India catalyzed the Pakistan Army’s consolidation of domestic control under Asim Munir. Tracking developments chronologically across three fronts- military, political, and judicial- it argues that the crisis let Munir move from expanding power within Pakistan’s hybrid system to changing the system itself. It follows the arc from Munir’s contested 2022 accession through the May 9, 2023 backlash, the jailing and electoral suppression of Imran Khan’s PTI, the 26th and 27th Amendments, his elevation to Field Marshal and the new Chief of Defense Forces role, and the gutting of the Supreme Court. A closing section shows how Munir converted this into a personalized foreign policy built on rapport with Donald Trump. It deliberately excludes terrorism analysis, non-state actors, and Pakistan’s economic and India policy as such.