NAWAZ SHARIF DASHES TO TEHRAN, FOLLOWED BY A TEST OF DIPLOMATIC SKILLS. Nawaz Sharif DASHES to Tehran after getting 1.5 billion dollars from Riyadh. Samdhi Sharif, the Finance Minister to muster support for securing monetary help from Tehran, accompanies him. Pakistan is left with Foreign Currency Reserves of 7 billion dollars with loan repayments of over 3 billion dollars in the very near future. The situation is highly alarming and could collapse the economy with post budget inflation. Maintaining U.S. support, and securing help from Saudi Arabia could be counterproductive while promoting relationship with Iran under the present environment. However, any rapprochement in relationship between the Arabs, non-Arabs and the Jewish state could be an ideal situation for economic growth of the region. Pakistan is an ideal candidate to initiate peace process under the auspices of the United States, but that is not expected of Nawaz Sharif’s government. It lacks courage, determination and skills in international diplomacy. Only a change of faces in Islamabad can refine the ball game. Nawaz Sharif will return from Tehran empty handed with face saving MOUs (Memorandum of Understandings), devoid of any constructive result. This will damage Pakistan-U.S. and Pakistan-Arab relationship. Had he been a capable leader, he could have delivered a diplomatic rapprochement towards a two state solution living side by side at peace, and might have turned the tables in resolving Arab-Iranian conflict. But a duffer is a duffer, at the end of the day! dawn/news/1105521/pm-embarks-on-trust-building-visit-to-iran-today
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 07:53:06 +0000
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