"Pakistans India-centred strategic paradigm is one of the biggest drags on the countrys progress. Data to prove this is indisputable. I have contended Pakistan must invert its traditional refrain of politics before economics with India by transforming itself into a transit and investment hub for the region. This is just about the only way Pakistan can retain a solid negotiating hand with India in the long term while furthering its (and the regions) human welfare goals. The status quo is untenable because it isnt working differential with India is growing by the day. Also, no one in the international community, including China, accepts the logic of Pakistans approach anymore."

Read the column in the Dawn.