The bitter hometruth about our foreign policy is that none of the major political parties can deny the opening narrative of PML(N)'s Manifesto for the 2013 election, "Pakistan today is at war within, while isolated abroad. Its independence and sovereignty stand compromised, its economic weaknesses are forcing us to go begging bowl in hand, while foreign states undertake unilateral strikes on its territory and non-state actors use it as a sanctuary to pursue their own agendas, oblivious to Pakistan's national interests". We have been muddling along on a "passage to nowhere" because of the self-serving agendas of both our civil and military rulers alike.
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