Nawaz would pivot towards India and would recognize India as a major power in the region as Arabs were recently forced to do publicly towards the Israel in that region. We would see better ties and personal visits between sharifs and the modi regime, normalization of the relationships, trade and access granted to India for central Asia through Pakistan at the cost of National Security of the Pakistan. All in trying to encircle China from all sides.
As I said that
Nawaz would be relegated to serve the Indian regime well. Aman ki Asha type
. Which he has done with flying colors before too. And he is capable enough to do so. And yes it does make a difference who sits in the seat of the executive authority ie PM. IK absorbed a lot of pressure on behalf of his military establishment in situations like Afghanistan issue, drone strikes, US uninterrupted access to the Afghan soil for US covert/overt Ops. Today PAF can easily get away unscathed after shooting down the US drone out of the sky as they would say that they were ordered to do so by their PM.
In presence of Nawaz Sharif the operation
Swift Retort would never have been so swift to punch Indian forces back into their rightful place. Everyone knows how reluctant Nawaz were for testing Nuke devices back in his prime days.
Operation Zarb e Azb was launched by the military after getting their noses bled in APS and similar back to back incidents. So it was solely an Army's initiative after enduring what's wasn't acceptable whatsoever. The PM was then informed later on that we have already initiated the Op against Indian backed/funded terrorists of your friend Modi.
It doesn't matter how much strong your military machine is. At the end that military machine has to draw it's strength and power from the political Govt to take actions freely in the interest of the National Security. We had
Kalbhoshan Yadav during Nawaz era and he never ever spelled his name from his wicked lips. No matter how much loud people or ISPR yells at matters,
when the President/PM says something, it's taken seriously all around the world