WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States renew their sweats to rebuild bilateral ties with a series of meetings between their foreign policy chiefs in New York this week.
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari reaches New York on Tuesday ( moment) to attend a US-initiated UN meeting on food security and for a bilateral meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Mr. Blinken had invited Mr. Bhutto-Zardari for the clerical meeting on the “ Global Food Security Call to Action” that’s being held on May 18.
“ The meeting will bring together a regionally different group of countries including those most affected by food instability and those in a position to take action to address it. Ministers will be invited to speak on philanthropic requirements and longer-term development sweats needed to save lives and make adaptability for the future,” a Foreign Office statement issued in Islamabad said about the conference.
Mr. Bhutto-Zardari will also share in the Open Debate of the UN Security Council on “ Conservation of International Peace and Security — Conflict and Food Security” on May 19, which is taking place during the US administration of UNSC.
Politic spectators see the foreign minister’s participation in the conference on pitfalls to global food security in the face of the Russian irruption of Ukraine as a kind of departure from its position of impartiality on the conflict.
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The FO said that Mr. Bhutto-Zardari will, at the two meetings at the UN, highlight Pakistan’s perspective and policy precedences and reiterate its commitment to continue to play a visionary part in supporting the transnational sweats to advance the participated objects of a peaceful and stable world free of conflict, and poverty and hunger.
“ Pakistan can still be a helpmate,” said Michael Kugelman who heads the South Asia section of a Washington suppose-tank, The Wilson Center. That’s “ why Washington has noway decided for a divorce from Islamabad — despite their numerous incompatibilities,” he explained.
The so-called politic string contestation has “ added gratuitous strain on US-Pakistan relations but the relationship can still be rebuilt,” said Prof Hassan Abbas, who teaches transnational relations at the National Defence University, Washington.
He was pertaining to former high minister Imran Khan’s claim that a recent string from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington underlines a US conspiracy to trip his government. Both the Biden and Shahbaz Sharif administrations have rejected this allegation as incorrect.
As a series of tweets by colorful US scholars show, Washington sees the current executive setup in Islamabad completing its term and would like to help it overcome some of the problems it’s covering.
“ Pakistan’s new government is going nowhere presto. It’s inherited a worsening profitable extremity that it putatively lacks the will and capacity to fix, making it more politically vulnerable every day,” Mr. Kugelman wrote in one of these tweets.
Pakistan's new govt is going nowhere fast. It's inherited a worsening economic crisis that it seemingly lacks the will and capacity to fix, making it more politically vulnerable every day. But at least for now, early elections don't appear to be in the cards. Bruising year ahead.
— Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman) May 14, 2022
“ But at least for now, early choices don’t appear to be in the cards. Bruising time ahead.”
In Washington, the Sharif government’s decision to shoot its foreign minister at a meeting where the impact of the Russian irruption would be stressed has been noted with interest. It’s seen as a suggestion of changing stations in Islamabad.
But it’s not clear if that would be enough for the Biden administration to offer a bailout package to Islamabad to help the important-stressed profitable collapse.
