Speaking at one of the most important United Nations General Assembly sessions in decades, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif had an important role to play. He had to fulfill the responsibility of representing Pakistan – a nuclear-armed regional power with a population of 240 million caught in one of the most geopolitically volatile regions of the world – while also understating Pakistan’s place in the world’s history, and understanding the moment he was standing in.
The Prime Minister did exactly that, starting with an impassioned........