nangyale
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Pakistan's best bet was to work with China in developing Pakistan's human resources.India had a leverage which is based on two things that allowed it to sustain pressure:
a) China's ascendency in which India can play the role of a spoiler
b) 1.2 billion population which is an extremely large export market for the rest of the world and the West in particular
Neither of these factors are at play with Pakistan. So IK trying to compare India's FP stance with Pakistan is a non-starter. We don't have *any* such leverage.
We have to craft our own niche somehow, however thus far this has evaded all Pakistani governments including the PTI one. One hint is our overflowing yet massively underperforming human resource which, if astutely developed, could completely change the scenario for Pakistan.
The US has already bet everything on India and no matter what General Dollars do, the best US will offer would be to become sidekick to the regional hegemon i-e India.