Prof. Najam Writes Op-Ed on Pakistan Foreign Policy

Prof. Adil Najam – Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations, and Geography and the Environment – published an op-ed in The Express Tribune on the need for Pakistan to have a full-time Foreign Minister gives its many foreign policy challenges.

The article, published on May 17, 2011, and titled “Pakistan – In Need of a Foreign Minister” argues that “it is rather amazing, actually disturbing, that in a period of time when foreign affairs is the single most important aspect of all politics in Pakistan, including in our domestic polity, Pakistan remains without a foreign minister.”

The op-ed concludes by arguing that, “The timing is crucial, not only because of all the foreign policy challenges that the country is swimming in, but even more because of the unique opportunity that has been provided by recent events to wrest back at least some of the critical foreign policy issues from the military to the civilian leadership. This opportunity must not be missed.”