Opinion
January 1, 2021
The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.
Writing about Pakistan’s foreign policy is not easy. It is a function of Pakistan’s national policy which is determined by domestic realities and power structures that have, by and large, proven inimical to the interests of its people.
What needs to be done to break free of these vice-like limits on Pakistan’s potential is generally known. Despite unwarranted constraints, the media is full of it every day. But the will and confidence to do anything to change the drift and stasis that afflicts Pakistan is absent, even though the existential costs of such national dereliction are well known.