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I don't know what planet you are on but it's not earth. How can Pakistan mediate between Palestine and Israel when 1) Pakistan is clearly in Palestine's camp and 2) Pakistan doesn't recognize Israel?

Israel is in India's camp. They are not interested in what Pakistan has to say.

That is all correct.
Pakistan would gain almost nothing by selling its soul and recognize a country which is one of the most hated countries in the world for its policies against the Palestinians. It is ONLY the Israeli Lobbies in Washington, backed up by fanatical Rapture Seeking Evangelical Christinians, who are protecting Israel. There is no 'West'. Time and again you see the UNGA voting in over-whelming numbers against Israel when it comes to the Palestine issue.

The only thing Pakistan could try is to persuade that Pakistan is not an overt enemy of Israel. And Musharraf and the Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri made some token assurances to Israel after 9/11; I bet that was just to reassure Israel of the Pakistani position, and in effect TRY to have the Israeli Lobbies don't be too harsh on Pakistan.

But Israel has not reciprocated. Not only Israel is the ideal for the Hindutva to duplicate the ethnic cleansing in Kashmir but Israel's weapon industry and its Lobbies are potent resources for India's Hindutva. Ask yourself: Why did the Indian officials brought the 'Israeli' missile connection when it targeted inside Pakistan on 26 Feb. 2019???

Pakistan should keep it's conscience clear. The Palestine cause is lost. Maybe one day the future generations of Israelis will accommodate the Palestinians as equal citizens. Very likely to happen, IMO. But in history Pakistan's name will be written as a country which took a principled, moral stand--just like most of the Scandinavian countries have taken against Israel.
 
Pakistan Must Engage With Israel to Save Pakistani Lives

What has Pakistan achieved from its perpetual boycott of Israel? What has it achieved for the Palestinians? Doesn’t logic demand a reassessment, not least when Israel can help save our economy and aid our survival?

Sumeera Asghar Roy, Hassan F. Virk

5 hours ago

1151250720.jpg

A man waits for transportation next to a roadside stall displaying national flags in Rawalpindi on August 4, 2020, ahead of Pakistan's 74th anniversary of independence from British rule

Pakistan’s foreign policy has been incoherent and inconsistent since its inception. It has suffered from a chasm between policy and strategy, xenophobic tendencies, domestic politics interfering negatively with the foreign policy process, and vice versa – including the unsettling influence of the military on civilian politics and the outsize impact of religious groups.

Policy-makers, rather than focusing on the policy process and the outcomes, serially succumb to socio-religious pressures, intensifying policy volatility, and that volatility, read as vulnerability, opens Pakistan up to manipulation by stronger world powers.

The result is that on the issues that Pakistan flags as central to its foreign policy principles – the Kashmir issue and the rights of Palestinians – Islamabad’s achievements have been barely discernible.

While Pakistan ventured into the marshlands of jihad – a tryst with international terrorism which began in the 1980s and brought home a perpetual religious radicalization, sectarianism and Kalashnikov culture that continues to this day – India was laying the ground for diplomatic ties with Israel, a process which sped up after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Around the same time, unrest began in Kashmir, and Pakistan became involved with a new aspect of the on/off conflict with India. Militants were strategically rerouted to Kashmir to keep India at bay.

905146111.jpg

A protester sprinkles petrol to burn representations of Israeli and US flags during al-Quds Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. Banner reads 'America and Israel are terrorists.'

In the 2000s, the second Palestinian intifada and a surge of terrorism in Pakistan coincided. Pakistan was pre-occupied; its engagement with the Israel-Palestine conflict was muted.

Today, India and Israel have celebrated more than a quarter-century of official ties. Pakistan, which focused its domestic energies and diplomatic capital in fighting for the right to Palestinian and Kashmiri self-determination, won nothing. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been annexed by India. Israel is on the verge of annexing the West Bank.

All this begs the question: What has Pakistan achieved from its policy of a perpetual boycott of Israel? Doesn’t logic demand a reassessment, if there's nothing to show after all these decades of resentment and negligence? What about venturing out of a stagnant policy pool and into fresher waters?

The choice of metaphor is not accidental. It is in the field of water, more specifically, water scarcity, that Pakistan’s obstinacy towards relations with Israel seem the most irresponsible. It would even be possible to say it threatens Pakistanis’ lives.

1960211061.jpg

A woman pushes a handcart loaded with drinking water containers on a street in Rawalpindi on July 22, 2020.

Currently, Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage, and it may become a water stress country in 2025, when (with an annual per capita availability of less than 1,000 cubic meters) fresh water becomes critically scarce. The International Monetary Fund ranks Pakistan as third among countries facing an acute water shortage. According to the World Economic Forum report, the biggest threat Pakistan faces, along with much of South Asia, is the water crisis.

Often unaware about the rate that groundwater is being depleted, and by what that will means for their livelihoods, Pakistanis have so far shown little concern about how they’re utilizing water.

The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources has also warned about the gravity of the situation, reporting that Pakistan first touched the water stress line in 1990, crossed the water scarcity line in 2005, and is at the risk of a 30 million acre feet shortage in the years to come. Experts calculate that Pakistan will be the most water-stressed country in the region by 2040.

2906667240.jpg

Laborers pack prized mangoes into boxes at a farm in Multan, Pakistan, as dwindling harvests and the the coronavirus crisis mean a disastrous season. June 22, 2020.

The implications for Pakistan’s economy when there is not enough water are dire for its 212 million people, and insufficiently recognized within the country. Nearly 20 percent of GDP is dependent on agriculture. Around 40 percent of the entire labor force is engaged in agriculture, including a full 67 percent of all working women.

But Pakistan’s agriculture sector is infamously inefficient in regards to water use: 90 percent of the country’s water sources are directed towards farming, but a quarter of that water is lost through leaks and other irrigation failures.

So how is water scarcity and Pakistan's foreign policy towards Israel connected?

One of the key factors that have saved Israel, a country located in the relatively arid Middle East, from water scarcity and stress has been its development and adoption of technology in agriculture, based on the rigorous utilization of every drop of available water.

1287824615.jpg

An agricultural development project run by Israel’s biggest irrigation technology companies, Netafim, in India. 2016.

Those advances range from national projects like desalination (converting seawater into drinking water), to state-assisted industries like agritech, to private sector enterprises specializing in drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation system, recycling graywater and advanced fertilization mechanisms and machinery.

Israel has introduced bio-pesticides, bio-fertilizers, and AI in agriculture, including robots and sensors – to the extent that plants may soon be able to "talk" to humans to convey their requirements. Israel currently recycles 86 percent of its water, by far the highest rate in the world. Israel now manages to not only fulfil its own water demand but also exports its expertise to more than 150 countries, including some in the Arab world – except Palestine, which suffers from severe shortages.

Had Pakistan been able to access this panoply of technologies and best practice, agriculture could have increased its share of Pakistan’s GDP from 26 to 36-40 percent – simply by increased production and yield.

If Pakistan could swallow using Israeli weapons during the 1980s Operation Cyclone, the CIA program arming the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan, why can't it use Israeli technology for constructive purposes? Pakistan urgently needs assistance from agricultural scientists and experts to overhaul its existing outdated agricultural and water management systems, before it’s too late.

3282520143.jpg

A Pakistani farmer sorts the wheat during the harvest in Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.

But is it really feasible to divorce politics from development aid and cooperation?

Israel is almost self-sufficient in terms of agricultural products. Even with very little territory, it has always been a net exporter to countries with enormous areas under cultivation, such as India. Most of its agricultural machinery is produced domestically and not imported from China.

Being based in Beijing, I've observed that in all the major universities and research institutes, there are Chinese-Israeli Cooperation Centers of Excellence in Biotechnology, agricultural development and innovation. China is Israel's third-largest trading partner globally and its largest trading partner in Asia. And China is one of the few countries in the world to have concurrently maintained warm relations with Israel, Palestine, and the Muslim world at large.

As Pakistan lags behind in agricultural and scientific advancements, particularly in water and irrigation, it is high time for both countries to extend an olive branch to each other. As a country, we ses ourselves in a permanent competition with India – but India is already laps ahead in development cooperation with Israel. Pakistan has a lot of catching up to do.

Pakistan could also learn from Israel how to encourage civil society’s enthusiasm and respect for political and scientific realities. Israel celebrates its scientists and Nobel laureates. We call ours “foreign-funded agents.” Exactly this kind of conspiratorial disrespect led to the exile of Dr. Abdus Salam, the first and only Pakistani scientist to win the Nobel Prize.

2188851605.jpg

Pakistani flood survivors wait their turn for food distribution by The Al-furqane Foundation Trust at a camp in Nowshera on August 16, 2010.

China, our all-weather friend, invests in extensive agricultural research joint-ventures on with India. In Pakistan, Beijing’s priorities are infrastructure projects and luxury resorts in Pakistan. Is that difference sdue to radically different domestic priorities in India and Pakistan, or because a superpower invests according to the worth of its target states are?

Until now, Pakistan has failed to be anything more than a 'frontline ally in the war against terror' or a 'massive construction site': it simply has not insisted on a focus on scientific and agricultural development. But there must be a better way.

Pakistan's exclusionary foreign policy towards Israel is based on its wrongdoings against Palestinian Muslims. But if that's the real reason, then why hasn't Pakistan boycotted America for its wrongdoings against the Muslim populations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, arming Israel against Hezbollah and PLO; why has it not boycotted India over wrongdoings in Gujarat and Kashmir?

If Egypt and Jordan, neighboring Muslim-majority states who’ve been directly affected countries by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, can make politico-economic deals with Israel for the good of their peoples, why can't Pakistan, which is far removed from the conflict?

Pakistan could do much more for the Palestinians if it does first what it needs to do for Pakistanis.

Sumeera Asghar Roy is a PhD candidate at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. She holds a master's degree in Horticulture from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. She has represented Pakistan at many global events relating to agriculture, and her work has been published in The Nation, Policy Forum, Pakistan Today and other outlets

Hassan F. Virk is a Lecturer of Politics and Development Studies at the School of Integrated Social Sciences and Research Associate at the Center for Security, Strategy, and Policy Research, University of Lahore

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/...with-israel-to-save-pakistani-lives-1.9058526

I think Pakistan should challenge Israel's right to existence at the ICJ.

Land grabbing and demographic engineering don't make nation states. They make criminal empires.

That's what founder of the country instructed. He has a road to his name in Turkey. Maybe Turkey should take up his instructions
 
I don't know what planet you are on but it's not earth. How can Pakistan mediate between Palestine and Israel when 1) Pakistan is clearly in Palestine's camp and 2) Pakistan doesn't recognize Israel?

Israel is in India's camp. They are not interested in what Pakistan has to say.



You would think Israel, of all countries, would know what a Nazi state looks like because you clearly don't.

Try to comprehend first dude. What I said was that if Pakistan had relations it could mediate.

They are not interested, how do you know? BTW this Haaretz is Israeli site.

Nazi state look like today's india. Israel does know and so does most part of world. Yes they are quiet because they wanna milk bhart mata.
 
India is india and they will get unconditional support from the world. Pakistan is a Muslim countries and there are many powers in the world who like to turn Pakistan into Iraq and Syria. They have tried many times and they will continue their efforts, sometimes with external pressure and sometimes internally by weakening our economy, bring people in power who destroy every system in the country and working against the interest of Pakistan and sometimes by divine us based on religion, sect, color, chaste, language, culture etc.
Sirji, that's nonsense theory. Does world try to screw Malaysia, Indonesia or Bangladesh just because they are Muslims?

If PPP is screwing Karachi due to politics, it is not "world" trying to screw us. Similarly if pmln is licking the gulf back and screwing Pakistan ruling party, doesn't mean "world" screwing us. We are quick to find a bogeyman outside for our own failures. Not saying everything is perfect from the world and their mentality is to blindly unconditionally stand with Pakistan, but it is not the picture as presented.
 
It is absurd to have no relations with Israel. Pakistan's entire foreign policy excluding India was based on protection and support to Middle Eastern regimes. But whenever we needed them, they never came for us. Even Palestine supported Bharti terrorists and called their ambassador from pakistan once.

Pakistan has only increased a mess in security situation and isolation in world forums by boycotting Israel. If pakistan had any relations with Israel, it could actually mediate between Palestine and Israel, and benefit from Israel's advance tech. Not to mention the support in international forums and export boost.

only idiots will recognize israel (cruelest regime on earth)
 
Those advances range from national projects like desalination (converting seawater into drinking water), to state-assisted industries like agritech, to private sector enterprises specializing in drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation system, recycling graywater and advanced fertilization mechanisms and machinery.

Israel has introduced bio-pesticides, bio-fertilizers, and AI in agriculture, including robots and sensors – to the extent that plants may soon be able to "talk" to humans to convey their requirements. Israel currently recycles 86 percent of its water, by far the highest rate in the world. Israel now manages to not only fulfil its own water demand but also exports its expertise to more than 150 countries, including some in the Arab world – except Palestine, which suffers from severe shortages.

Had Pakistan been able to access this panoply of technologies and best practice, agriculture could have increased its share of Pakistan’s GDP from 26 to 36-40 percent – simply by increased production and yield.
Are those God gifted technologies to Israel??
 
Sirji, that's nonsense theory. Does world try to screw Malaysia, Indonesia or Bangladesh just because they are Muslims?

If PPP is screwing Karachi due to politics, it is not "world" trying to screw us. Similarly if pmln is licking the gulf back and screwing Pakistan ruling party, doesn't mean "world" screwing us. We are quick to find a bogeyman outside for our own failures. Not saying everything is perfect from the world and their mentality is to blindly unconditionally stand with Pakistan, but it is not the picture as presented.


PPP is political party whos founder was the reason for separation of East Pakistan.
It’s all about divide and conquer. PPP want to stay in power so they will do whatever it takes but you have to understand who is supporting them. PPP and PMLN both get their support from Same people, sometimes it’s direct and sometimes it’s through 3rd party. You need to understand world politics. West will never attack all Muslims countries at the same time, they will economically (or through some Internal or external conflict) destroy them one by one. Palestine destroyed, Iraq, Libya, Yemen destroyed, Syria with Civil war and that what they want in Pakistan, civil war will further break Pakistan and lose it’s power. Why these different terrorists organization popping up in KPK, Balochistan and Sindh? Who is supporting them? Same people supporting them sometimes directly and sometimes via 3rd party (RAW, NDS, Mi6, rouge agents with in Iranian intelligent agency).

Malaysia and Pakistan and Pakistan and Turkey is not the same. They have open clubs, pubs, red districts, prostitution and gambling. We don’t have those operating opening and our government doesn’t earn from casinos.

puppeteer are controlling many Muslim politicians and majority of Royal family is under their control.
Saudi prince can come to USA and lose millions dollars in gambling but don’t spend pennies in supporting Muslim Syrian and Burmese refugees. They are puppets of west and they are only in power because of the West.
 
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So the world needs isreal?And why should a country need another for its development?
Even the US that sends them 20-30billion a year ? chutyas
its news a article but a blog post from a matric pass teen.Reasoning given is from a 12 years old. ok so why hasnt US boycotted Israel for what they did to USS liberty/ Just wondering.But Im sure this due is already convinced, unlike the Captain of USS Liberty that is was a misunderstanding. Really how can u tell a friend from foe from a helicopter hovering 100 yards from the ship?
 
If that is the case then stand against China due to the uighyr muslim matter. Why we are not standing against China? Because we are not idiots. Because competent leaders know that religion has no place in geopolitics. Pakistan should always look for its own interests. Estabilishing good relations with Israel in our own interests. I bet my *** that if India starts to donate tons of stuff to Palestine, next day they will be supporting India on Kashmir issue because it's in their interest. Stop being a child in terms of geopolitics, grow out of your shell.

uighyr has been talked gazillion times and proven to be mere propaganda.. nice try ..
 
even arabs recognize israel . when palastine recognize they did not asked from paksitan . but we are really slave mentality country .
 
It's a no-brainer this.

Recognise Israel immediately. Engage with them diplomatically and trade with them. Stop turning them into some mortal enemy because of some antiquated and antisemitic nonsense spouted by ignorant people. Now once that transactional relationship is established, by all means, protest the human rights violations against the Palestinians (some of which are certainly sickening and abhorrent) and dissuade them from overindulging with the crazees to our east.

There's bad history between our nations for no good reason whatsoever. That bad history aside, any honest Jew who knows his history would have a quiet respect for Pakistan standing up stubbornly to a larger foe.
 
If that is the case then stand against China due to the uighyr muslim matter. Why we are not standing against China? Because we are not idiots. Because competent leaders know that religion has no place in geopolitics. Pakistan should always look for its own interests. Estabilishing good relations with Israel in our own interests. I bet my *** that if India starts to donate tons of stuff to Palestine, next day they will be supporting India on Kashmir issue because it's in their interest. Stop being a child in terms of geopolitics, grow out of your shell.

Not to bother your slumber, but you do know that Israel is a Jewish state right? Religion has no place in geopolitics? Very rich, but ever heard the term Judeo-Christian Western Civilization? Mouthful, but purposeful. Secondly, PLA was never really fond of Pakistan nor it's cause... so, can you call it a principled stance?
 
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Pakistan Must Engage With Israel to Save Pakistani Lives

What has Pakistan achieved from its perpetual boycott of Israel? What has it achieved for the Palestinians? Doesn’t logic demand a reassessment, not least when Israel can help save our economy and aid our survival?

Sumeera Asghar Roy, Hassan F. Virk

5 hours ago

1151250720.jpg

A man waits for transportation next to a roadside stall displaying national flags in Rawalpindi on August 4, 2020, ahead of Pakistan's 74th anniversary of independence from British rule

Pakistan’s foreign policy has been incoherent and inconsistent since its inception. It has suffered from a chasm between policy and strategy, xenophobic tendencies, domestic politics interfering negatively with the foreign policy process, and vice versa – including the unsettling influence of the military on civilian politics and the outsize impact of religious groups.

Policy-makers, rather than focusing on the policy process and the outcomes, serially succumb to socio-religious pressures, intensifying policy volatility, and that volatility, read as vulnerability, opens Pakistan up to manipulation by stronger world powers.

The result is that on the issues that Pakistan flags as central to its foreign policy principles – the Kashmir issue and the rights of Palestinians – Islamabad’s achievements have been barely discernible.

While Pakistan ventured into the marshlands of jihad – a tryst with international terrorism which began in the 1980s and brought home a perpetual religious radicalization, sectarianism and Kalashnikov culture that continues to this day – India was laying the ground for diplomatic ties with Israel, a process which sped up after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Around the same time, unrest began in Kashmir, and Pakistan became involved with a new aspect of the on/off conflict with India. Militants were strategically rerouted to Kashmir to keep India at bay.

905146111.jpg

A protester sprinkles petrol to burn representations of Israeli and US flags during al-Quds Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. Banner reads 'America and Israel are terrorists.'

In the 2000s, the second Palestinian intifada and a surge of terrorism in Pakistan coincided. Pakistan was pre-occupied; its engagement with the Israel-Palestine conflict was muted.

Today, India and Israel have celebrated more than a quarter-century of official ties. Pakistan, which focused its domestic energies and diplomatic capital in fighting for the right to Palestinian and Kashmiri self-determination, won nothing. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been annexed by India. Israel is on the verge of annexing the West Bank.

All this begs the question: What has Pakistan achieved from its policy of a perpetual boycott of Israel? Doesn’t logic demand a reassessment, if there's nothing to show after all these decades of resentment and negligence? What about venturing out of a stagnant policy pool and into fresher waters?

The choice of metaphor is not accidental. It is in the field of water, more specifically, water scarcity, that Pakistan’s obstinacy towards relations with Israel seem the most irresponsible. It would even be possible to say it threatens Pakistanis’ lives.

1960211061.jpg

A woman pushes a handcart loaded with drinking water containers on a street in Rawalpindi on July 22, 2020.

Currently, Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage, and it may become a water stress country in 2025, when (with an annual per capita availability of less than 1,000 cubic meters) fresh water becomes critically scarce. The International Monetary Fund ranks Pakistan as third among countries facing an acute water shortage. According to the World Economic Forum report, the biggest threat Pakistan faces, along with much of South Asia, is the water crisis.

Often unaware about the rate that groundwater is being depleted, and by what that will means for their livelihoods, Pakistanis have so far shown little concern about how they’re utilizing water.

The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources has also warned about the gravity of the situation, reporting that Pakistan first touched the water stress line in 1990, crossed the water scarcity line in 2005, and is at the risk of a 30 million acre feet shortage in the years to come. Experts calculate that Pakistan will be the most water-stressed country in the region by 2040.

2906667240.jpg

Laborers pack prized mangoes into boxes at a farm in Multan, Pakistan, as dwindling harvests and the the coronavirus crisis mean a disastrous season. June 22, 2020.

The implications for Pakistan’s economy when there is not enough water are dire for its 212 million people, and insufficiently recognized within the country. Nearly 20 percent of GDP is dependent on agriculture. Around 40 percent of the entire labor force is engaged in agriculture, including a full 67 percent of all working women.

But Pakistan’s agriculture sector is infamously inefficient in regards to water use: 90 percent of the country’s water sources are directed towards farming, but a quarter of that water is lost through leaks and other irrigation failures.

So how is water scarcity and Pakistan's foreign policy towards Israel connected?

One of the key factors that have saved Israel, a country located in the relatively arid Middle East, from water scarcity and stress has been its development and adoption of technology in agriculture, based on the rigorous utilization of every drop of available water.

1287824615.jpg

An agricultural development project run by Israel’s biggest irrigation technology companies, Netafim, in India. 2016.

Those advances range from national projects like desalination (converting seawater into drinking water), to state-assisted industries like agritech, to private sector enterprises specializing in drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation system, recycling graywater and advanced fertilization mechanisms and machinery.

Israel has introduced bio-pesticides, bio-fertilizers, and AI in agriculture, including robots and sensors – to the extent that plants may soon be able to "talk" to humans to convey their requirements. Israel currently recycles 86 percent of its water, by far the highest rate in the world. Israel now manages to not only fulfil its own water demand but also exports its expertise to more than 150 countries, including some in the Arab world – except Palestine, which suffers from severe shortages.

Had Pakistan been able to access this panoply of technologies and best practice, agriculture could have increased its share of Pakistan’s GDP from 26 to 36-40 percent – simply by increased production and yield.

If Pakistan could swallow using Israeli weapons during the 1980s Operation Cyclone, the CIA program arming the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan, why can't it use Israeli technology for constructive purposes? Pakistan urgently needs assistance from agricultural scientists and experts to overhaul its existing outdated agricultural and water management systems, before it’s too late.

3282520143.jpg

A Pakistani farmer sorts the wheat during the harvest in Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.

But is it really feasible to divorce politics from development aid and cooperation?

Israel is almost self-sufficient in terms of agricultural products. Even with very little territory, it has always been a net exporter to countries with enormous areas under cultivation, such as India. Most of its agricultural machinery is produced domestically and not imported from China.

Being based in Beijing, I've observed that in all the major universities and research institutes, there are Chinese-Israeli Cooperation Centers of Excellence in Biotechnology, agricultural development and innovation. China is Israel's third-largest trading partner globally and its largest trading partner in Asia. And China is one of the few countries in the world to have concurrently maintained warm relations with Israel, Palestine, and the Muslim world at large.

As Pakistan lags behind in agricultural and scientific advancements, particularly in water and irrigation, it is high time for both countries to extend an olive branch to each other. As a country, we ses ourselves in a permanent competition with India – but India is already laps ahead in development cooperation with Israel. Pakistan has a lot of catching up to do.

Pakistan could also learn from Israel how to encourage civil society’s enthusiasm and respect for political and scientific realities. Israel celebrates its scientists and Nobel laureates. We call ours “foreign-funded agents.” Exactly this kind of conspiratorial disrespect led to the exile of Dr. Abdus Salam, the first and only Pakistani scientist to win the Nobel Prize.

2188851605.jpg

Pakistani flood survivors wait their turn for food distribution by The Al-furqane Foundation Trust at a camp in Nowshera on August 16, 2010.

China, our all-weather friend, invests in extensive agricultural research joint-ventures on with India. In Pakistan, Beijing’s priorities are infrastructure projects and luxury resorts in Pakistan. Is that difference sdue to radically different domestic priorities in India and Pakistan, or because a superpower invests according to the worth of its target states are?

Until now, Pakistan has failed to be anything more than a 'frontline ally in the war against terror' or a 'massive construction site': it simply has not insisted on a focus on scientific and agricultural development. But there must be a better way.

Pakistan's exclusionary foreign policy towards Israel is based on its wrongdoings against Palestinian Muslims. But if that's the real reason, then why hasn't Pakistan boycotted America for its wrongdoings against the Muslim populations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, arming Israel against Hezbollah and PLO; why has it not boycotted India over wrongdoings in Gujarat and Kashmir?

If Egypt and Jordan, neighboring Muslim-majority states who’ve been directly affected countries by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, can make politico-economic deals with Israel for the good of their peoples, why can't Pakistan, which is far removed from the conflict?

Pakistan could do much more for the Palestinians if it does first what it needs to do for Pakistanis.

Sumeera Asghar Roy is a PhD candidate at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. She holds a master's degree in Horticulture from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. She has represented Pakistan at many global events relating to agriculture, and her work has been published in The Nation, Policy Forum, Pakistan Today and other outlets

Hassan F. Virk is a Lecturer of Politics and Development Studies at the School of Integrated Social Sciences and Research Associate at the Center for Security, Strategy, and Policy Research, University of Lahore

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/...with-israel-to-save-pakistani-lives-1.9058526
All those accepted Israel are now super powers
 
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