Week 15-16: Comprehensive Review of Foreign Policy of Pakistan

In the nutshell, Anatol Lieven in his book, “Pakistan a hard country”, argues that Pakistan is the only country in the world, which has got immense financial aid owing to her geographical location. However, in reality, Pakistan is the only country across the world, which is terribly affected due to its geographical position.

 

 

In this grave scenario, Pakistan is going through immense economic crises due to the Afghan war. It has a blackened image due to Indian propaganda. The social lives of Pakistanis are gloomy owing to Indian espionage and asymmetrical warfare.

Iran and the Saudi war is directly affecting Pakistan. Pakistan cannot deny the fact that Saudi has helped her and Iran is its neighbor. In short, Pakistan is stuck amidst the global wars and global powers and all this is hindering Pakistan’s prosperity and obtainment of her FP goals

However, the new developments, such as Pakistan joining SCO and siding with China and Russia is the blow to the west. As China and Russia want peace in Afghanistan so does Pakistan; both the powers want CPEC to complete, so does Pakistan, both have good relations with Iran and want her to rise, so does Pakistan. Hence, the only Option Pakistan has is to tilt the shift and robustly hold the hands of Russia and China. As the west and the Arab world have not yielded any good to Pakistan.
Recently, almost all the Arab world sided with India on Kashmir issue and not with Pakistan. Trump halting the Peace talks with Afghanistan and Russia and China pursuing talks is another omen for Pakistan to change the sides and extirpate challenges to her foreign policy

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