Besides reform they want stability and trust, at moment we don’t have that and honestly even foreign leaders are turned away at the sight of PDM lotas everyone has had enough. Nations are looking for partners they can grow with and not be a burden on there shoulders whereas they have to carry that individual to the finish line every time. Anyone after awhile gets tired of the beggar sitting at the masjid doorsteps and will continue to ignore him.
Case in point: the new report showing Overseas Pakistanis took money out of Roshan Digitsl accounts etc., and that’s the start and it’ll accelerate soon.
Pakistan doesn’t offer any benefits at moment and with each institution stepping over the other doesn’t present a good image either.
While waiting for PTI to be back in power. PTI, as the government of KPK can still visit Afghanistan and try to impress upon them to do what they have to, so they are no longer an international pariah, and can get more foreign to get their irrigation system rebuilt. With more land under cultivation, they can fully feed their people, and employ so many people, ending two crisis with one solution.
Improvements to the Afghan irrigation system can mitigate flooding coming from Afghanistan, and can help increase water from their mountains making their way first into Baluchistan and KPK, but eventually to Punjab and Sindh. That should help PTI win more national support come General elections. There is a lot the PTI can be doing now, that will indirectly pay off down the line, politically and in improving the economy.
PTI already has earned some trust foreign the Afghans due to their policy of “Absolutely Not”, so they should cash in on it. They need to ask the Afghans to help themselves (by implementing the policies they stated to the international community they were going to implement) and in the process make it easier for a Pakistan to get investors lined up for Afghanistan’s mining sector once PTI is back in power.
Btw, A lot of what needs to be done, to help the Afghans doesn’t have to be guess work. A lot can be learned from the SIGAR reports over the last 10-15 years. For example, a lot of the agricultural modernization proposed under CPEC phase 2, can be expanded to Afghanistan, helping to raise yields as quickly as possible with the minimal of inputs.
Indians are hoping the Afghans make blunders and have the people revolt against their current government. But if the current government can get the economy rolling and restore the rights they promised, the people will be so busy, there won’t be any recruits for groups like TTP or BLA or whatever. Idle hands are the devils best friends.
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