When flattery becomes foreign policy
PM Shehbaz's words in Sharm el-Sheikh will not change the course of Gaza’s reconstruction or rewrite Pakistan’s foreign policy. But they reveal the shifting grammar of international politics.
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The author works in the Indirect Tax Policy Division at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in the United Kingdom. He has previously interned with the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York. He is a member of Chatham House’s Common Futures Conversations network and studies Economics and Finance at the University of Sheffield.
