Fahd Humayun

Amid mul­ti­ple crises, Pak­istan needs an or­der­ly, de­mo­c­ra­t­ic tran­si­tion to re-es­tab­lish sta­bil­i­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.

Af­ter the dis­so­lu­tion of the par­lia­ment Pak­istan is gear­ing up for a tense po­lit­i­cal bat­tle.

Prime Min­is­ter Im­ran Khan had lit­tle to gain and much to lose from back­ing out of his planned vis­it to Moscow.

Af­ter the Tal­iban takeover in Afghanistan, the US will need Pak­istan’s help to pre­serve the gains of the last 20 years.

If and when the COVID-19 storm sub­sides, new norms will like­ly be need­ed to dic­tate how states be­have with each oth­er.

For many in Pak­istan, no oth­er group bet­ter ex­em­pli­fies the US’s long his­to­ry of play­ing sides to suit its own ends.