Russia-Pakistan relations: embracing the bear
The Russian amity offering a “blank cheque”, and geo-economic cooperation are unprecedented
The writer is a retired major general and has an interest in International Relations and Political Sociology. He can be reached at [email protected] and tweets @20 Inam
“Let’s bury the past,” were the words of my counterpart in Moscow at the Ministry of Defence, where I was heading a tri-service military delegation some years ago. We were in Moscow coinciding with the biennial Spasskaya Tower Military Music Festival, where our military band was invited for the first time. The crowd was ecstatic to the tune of “Chandni ratein”, especially when it played for the general public outside the festival venue at Red Square and at the grounds of the sprawling Moscow university. Moscow had billboards welcoming us. The amity was surprising and unusual.
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President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Xi Jinping at the SCO. PHOTO: AFP
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