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| India-Pakistan |
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| 2017-09-01 |
| [DAWN] IN the introduction to Pakistain at the Crossroad, Christophe Jaffrelot labels Pakistain as a "client state" and a "pivotal state". For long, we had been dubbed an ideological state and a security state. None of these titles are too flattering, but they are not inaccurate. The status of being a client and a pivot stems from Jaffrelot’s observation about Pakistain’s "ability to navigate at the interface of domestic and external dynamics". This has been increasingly in evidence with the passage of time as the country is sucked deeper into the quagmire of external and internal conflict and instability. The two are intricately intertwined. That is what we are witnessing today in the wake of President Donald Trump |
| Posted by:Fred |