'Pakistan has gotten to be separated and needs to change its outside strategy'

'Pakistan has gotten to be separated and needs to change its outside strategy'

                               

ISLAMABAD: During a class on Tuesday, senior columnist Zahid Hussein said Pakistan is lingering behind monetarily and has ended up disengaged which is the reason there is a requirement for rethinking the nation's remote arrangement. Be that as it may, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign AffairsTariq Fatemi couldn't help contradicting Mr Hussein's perception and said the current outside approach is important to the requirements at the time. 

Talking at a workshop titled "Is Pakistan Isolated? Local Challenges and Opportunities', which was facilitated by the Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR), Mr Hussein said Pakistan needs to change its course and gave the case of India and China, saying the two nations have advanced and that they have concentrated on their economies. 

"The present government has made strategies for financial improvement, however they are yet to be executed in light of the fact that Pakistan's remote arrangement is driven by national security. The China Pakistan Economic Corridor could be a distinct advantage," he said. 

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The columnist said Pakistan's financial development rate has been 3pc throughout the previous 10 years and contrasted various things of India the economy of which has been developing by 8pc, while China's monetary development rate has been 7pc over the same time. 

"Pakistan has been abandoned far, even by Sri Lanka and Bangladesh," he said. 

To this, Mr Fatemi said no outside arrangement can be known as a complete achievement or disappointment. 

"The PML-N's statement said that the remote arrangement will concentrate on the economy. We have attempted to have great relations with Afghanistan since we accept there will be no peace in Pakistan until there is peace in Afghanistan," he said. 

He included that a task of building a motorway from Peshawar to Central Asia is in progress and that another motorway will be built up amongst Peshawar and Chabahar. He said relations with Iran are likewise being centered around as the Pak-Iran gas pipeline undertaking is additionally essential. 

He said Pakistan needs great relations with India and that the PML-N drove government needed to resume relations from how they were in 1999. In any case, he said, the assessment must be equal for this to work. 

"We have great relations with Arab nations and 100,000 Pakistanis will be sent to Qatar for livelihood. To the extent the Nuclear Supplier Group is concerned, Pakistan has been taking a shot at this for quite a long time and however the application was given at last, 11 nations upheld Pakistan. This was all as a result of strategy," he said. 

He included that surprisingly, Pakistan has an assention for purchasing modern weapons from Russia. 

Additionally talking at the occasion was prominent student of history and creator of 'Pakistan, a Hard Country', Prof Anatol Lieven who said the breakdown of Afghan peace talks has expanded US ill will and that amid his visit to Washington, he heard inquiries concerning the legitimization of Pakistan's position in the Afghan peace talks. 

He said that however US antagonistic vibe has expanded, China keeps on supporting Pakistan and cautioned that this backing must not be taken as a full power. 

"No nation needs Pakistan to go too far between shielding the Afghan Taliban and equipping them. Pakistan will relinquish all goodwill if this somehow managed to happen. It is attractive to restore the peace talks," he said.