Abstract
This article is written in the backdrop of Pakistan’s General elections 2018, held
on July 25, 2018. As a result of which new government of Paksitan Tehrik-I insaf
(PTI) has come into power. The new Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Ahmed
Khan Niazi has promised a new Pakistan in his maiden speech by emphasizing the
citizen’s rights to dignity, need for provision of services/ welfare by state, need for
institutional and behavioral change with the supremacy of law. Apparently, Prime
Minister’s first speech depicts that he is vowed to fulfil his promises which the
nation and country faces both internally and externally yet things are different
when one has the executive power and run the show. The new government has
taken the command of the country at a time when it is amongst challenges and
opportunities with regard to the issues of national security, foreign policy, its
soaring relations with the US, India and Afghanistan. Nation-building and the
state-building have been the enormous challenges to Pakistan right from 1947
which persist even to date. Undoubtedly these relations over the period of time
have transformed into different shapes with the regional perspective. The article
discusses external challenges of the country vis-a-viz its foreign policy approach
that the new government is to face in the days to come. Therefore it remains a
million dollar question how new government in Pakistan will be able to fill the
gaps of the trust-deficits in neighborhood, particularly with India, Afghanistan
and US and this is the main argument of the article. It concludes with a ‘way
forward approach’ that can be adopted for effective long-term national security
policy together with national imperative.
Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Naheed S. Goraya. (2019) External Challenges to Pakistan’s National Security, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 56, Issue 1.
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