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India says Kashmir is an integral part of its territory. Pakistan says it is an unfinished international dispute. Global powers treat it as a question of regional security. But Kashmiris themselves still do not possess an equal role in determining their political future.
The more important question is whether technology and outcomes should be treated as equivalent. Installing thousands of surveillance cameras is not the same as creating a safe society.
By placing Pakistan in MENAAP, the World Bank is giving institutional weight to this development path, one centred on migration, remittances, energy dependence, external finance and rentier capital. Pakistan’s reclassification is not Bangladesh’s crisis, but it is Bangladesh’s warning.
In the brutal, transactional mechanics of international survival, Pakistan does not need to plead for a seat at the diplomatic table; the raw architecture of global crises ensures that the table cannot be built without it.
Pakistan may be relevant. But relevance is not neutrality, and it is not trustworthiness. Any diplomatic process in which Pakistan seeks a decisive role should be treated with strict limits, hard verification, and deep skepticism.
Former American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s phrase “unknown unknowns” best captures the near impossibility of predicting what comes next. That said, the ongoing Iran-United States ceasefire, offers a brief window of opportunity to take stock: A highly precarious, at best partial, cooling-off period in a region that remains very much in turmoil.
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