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The other strategic threat - Newspaper


The writer is Dawn’s resident editor in Islamabad.
AS the news cycle shifts to the situation in Afghanistan and the dwindling prospects of a negotiated settlement, the political wheel of fortune in Pakistan appears fading into the background. The noise from the background echoing in the hills and mountains of Azad Kashmir is however promising another round of instability after Eid.
This instability is generating a certain strategic angst within power circles. At a time of great regional upheaval, and of weighty decisions that will have consequences for years ahead, Pakistan’s volatile political climate and the mutual loathing that it is generating, is deemed highly unsuitable for the times. In other words, the lack of a functional working relationship between the government and the opposition has begun to be perceived as a major obstacle for strategic policymaking that requires a buy-in from all stakeholders. ....

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