ISLAMABAD: May 31, 2023: Pakistan’s former national security advisor (NSA), Moeed Yousaf, is foreseeing a huge storm that, in his views, is going to hit Pakistan potentially as a result of China-US conflict. He apprehended that Islamabad was not equipped well to withstand upcoming storm emerging due to China-US conflict and it was time for the policy-makers to wake up and work out a foreign policy that could strike a balance in relations simultaneously with Washington and Beijing.
Former NSA made these assertions while commenting on Pakistan’s current political socio-economic situation at a business leaders’ summit “ The big rethink” held in Islamabad.
Nutshell has organized the event to bring Pakistan’s top business leaders and international experts of corporate sector under one roof. Chief executive Officers of Pakistan’s top corporate companies, banks, cellular companies and policy makers, think tanks are participating in 2-day summit.
Moeed Yousaf argued that Pakistan must find a equilibrium while drafting the polices for relationship with Washington and Beijing.
The former NSA claimed that the world has taken a pause from Pakistan and it may have even more hard times in the future if it does not make changes to survive in fast the changing world. He lamented that Pakistan fundamentally lack basic structure required to get it fit in demand based financial world. He quoted many areas like foreign policy , economic strategy where, according to him, Pakistan need to make fundamental changes to have result oriented polices
Responding to volley of queries raised by the delegates of the summit,
Moeed Yousaf said Pakistan is still struggling to find solutions to its teething issues . He said when he was a part of the Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) government for a few months and during that period found that Pakistan’s entire system resists any effort meant for a change of status quo. He said Pakistan need to translate itself from the stage of thinking to execution and academia and its think tanks should serve as a conveyor belt to provide its input for the burcracy to execute their work.