Wanted: A South Asian strategy for Pakistan?

October 27, 2017 15:19

'Rare is the minister who goes to parliament and briefs its members in a candid manner,' writes Pakistan's dawn.com in an editorial, commending its foreign minister, Khawaja Asif, for briefing the country's senate on US secretary of state Rex Tillerson's trip to Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif, as Pakistan's prime minister, did not have a full-time foreign minister, which Dawn terms as 'one of the more perplexing mistakes of his third term'.

According to the publication, what emerged from Asif's comments to the Pakistan senate, however, is a picture of a US-Pakistan relationship that is deeply strained.

'If there is a US South Asia strategy that is emerging, it appears to involve the US, Afghanistan and India acting together to put pressure on Pakistan to do more in the fight against militancy, inside Pakistan and regionally,' the editorial says, and says, 'To push back against the unfair or unrealistic aspects of that strategy, Pakistan ought to consider drawing up its own South Asia strategy: a coordinated approach towards the US, Afghanistan and India, recognising the interconnectedness of its ties with them.'

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