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Pakistan’s government is struggling to formulate a vision on a wide range of issues from dealing with a mountain of external debt to general national despair. To manage and seek adequate responses to the formidable challenges a nuclear armed country confronts requires a clear understanding of their complexity and puts in place a strategy for short-term and long-term measures within a framework of macro-governance. Overwhelmed by the enormity of the task that lies ahead, many in the weak coalition government will settle down into their routine functions and duties, making only populist decisions while avoiding any real change of track.

But there is another equally important sector of governance and it is here that the absence of a clear vision comes into focus with terrible implications for stability and economic growth. This is the realm of foreign policy.

Surprisingly, there is no fresh thinking or initiative on how to develop a clear approach to normalizing relations with our most important neighbor, India. Partly, this reflects on the more than one power centers in Pakistan; a nightmare that has marred the foreign policy........

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