Sources have stated that Pakistan sinks in amnesia when discussing foreign policy and behaves like a state with its internal sovereignty intact. It has actually handed over the conduct of its foreign policy to jihadi elements it no longer controls and it also forgets that any ‘reformulation’ of policy. 


In his latest comment, ex-World Bank Pakistani economist Shahid Javed Burki has told that the past process was “India-centric” in the sense that Pakistan tried, to balance India’s growing military might and that approach proved costly. In a 2007 report, he has written that he has estimated the cost to Pakistan of the running dispute with India over Kashmir and other issues.


He has added that Modi thinks India too has damaged its economy through the anti-business Nehruvian model, which his predecessor prime minister began to overturn but failed to complete the job and the Prime Minister Sharif can hit it off with Prime Minister Modi but will be hampered by elements that force the world to call Pakistan a failed state by reason of lost ‘internal sovereignty’.


Meanwhile Modi’s rise seems to coincide with Pakistan’s change of Afghanistan strategy, namely, its reliance on the instrumentality of the ‘good’ Taliban to defeat India in Afghanistan and as per the new government in Kabul, the odds of the success of this strategy are stacked against Rawalpindi–Islamabad and the process of peace talks with the ‘bad’ Taliban was a part of this strategy with which the Pakistan army was not in agreement.


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