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Print Print 2016-08-20

Partly Facetious: Stop right there

"Mian sahib has a very clearly defined foreign policy strategy."
Published August 20, 2016

"Mian sahib has a very clearly defined foreign policy strategy."
"What strategy? Our Kashmir policy suffers from delayed and rare injections/comments from him and that too after the media takes him to task for his silence and..."
"Stop right there... I would like to quote Rumi to you, the mystic saint buried in Turkey, who said when the soul lies down in the grass the world is too full to talk about."
"Rumi wasn't talking of a foreign minister whose job is to make a statement on matters concerning foreign relations and need I add, there are many countries out there, friends and foes alike, who are increasingly taking us on verbally and in some cases through non verbal means as well and here I am referring to the drone strikes and the intelligence operations that account for terror attacks on our soil and..."
"OK, but Mian sahib appointed two advisors to advise him on foreign policy; besides you know that our foreign policy with the big three continues to be dictated by the establishment - and by the big three I mean the US, Afghanistan, India and more recently China as well..."
"But..."
"Mian sahib wants peace and trade and that's a good policy."
"Right, but the countries he wants trade with don't want it with us and they have made it very clear so then what?"
"Then Mian sahib remains silent...and as Rumi says..."
"Oh shush."
"Besides not making statements is Mian sahib's modus operandi in all matters - does he personally attack those in the opposition who attack him? OK recently he has in some jalsas but he always designates two to three dedicated attackers led now by one person whose loyalty can never be in question, his daughter, and..."
"But then what is the Sharif foreign policy? Silence and/or letting the two advisors handle something they are not senior enough to handle?"
"No silly he represents Pakistan at all international fora... and he is going to the United States to attend the United Nations session to make the same speech about Kashmir as he did last year and this time Indian atrocities have been reported by the international media so maybe the world will listen to him and..."
"Will he stop in London on the way over and back?"
"Of course, sticks and stones may break his bones but words are not going to make him change his modus operandi."
"You are being facetious."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2016

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