00:00We will, inshallah, make Pakistan a great country, inshallah.
00:03Imagine you are Shahbaz Sharif.
00:04You nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:06Mr. President, I would like to salute you.
00:09Then he attacks Iran, a fellow member of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.
00:14And you have to condemn that strike.
00:16Truly, he is a man of peace.
00:17But you have just signed a defense pact with Saudi Arabia.
00:20Attack one of us.
00:21You have attacked both of us.
00:22The pact practically red.
00:24Then Iran attacks Saudi Arabia.
00:27Do you honor the pact and stand against Iran or side with it?
00:31And to top it all, you are being hammered by your own neighbor, Afghanistan.
00:36Pakistan seems to have mixed alignment and non-alignment into a foreign policy cocktail
00:40that's perhaps too muddled to swallow and too inconsistent to be taken seriously.
00:45Tough to be Shahbaz, isn't it?
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