Pakistan's new step in foreign policy and relations

Pakistan's new step in foreign policy and relations

Pakistan has made quite visible and much needed changes in its foreign policy regarding relations with neighboring countries. Pakistan has turned its friendly hand towards far located states. In the previous year, many officials of the Pakistan interim government made visits towards different countries but no attention was granted to neighboring countries.

The purpose of these visits was to introduce the new plan of the unstable government to lift up the economy that has dwindled to its lowest ebb. Special Investment Facilitation Council aims at investment from domestic and foreign forums to increase economic stability and bring socio-economic prosperity.

Pakistan has now started to pay less heed to neighbors because of their unequal and hostile relations. Countless efforts and talks between the Pakistani government and the Talibans to curb TTP, has not yielded any better results. The number of terror and militant attacks in Pakistan and the casualties were manifold higher than previous years. That’s why Pakistan has not given ears to any benevolent words coming from any actor and forced the migrants out of its legitimate territory. Whatever the international community says, this step of Pakistan has its manifest effects that can’t be ignored. 

The stock market that started with lowest points in the earlier days of 2023, ended the year with points higher than ever in the previous 20 years. This proves the claims of Pakistani authorities of large scale smuggling of currency and edibles by afghans migrants, many of them if not all.

Neighbors of Pakistan don't offer tangible trades but only hostility and entanglements. 

This change of Pakistan's foreign policy towards geoeconomics rather than geopolitics will raise a soft image of Pakistan and help it to maintain it.