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Opinion

New Pakistan PM's foreign policy must focus on trade, not insurgents

Country cannot afford confrontational stance with three neighbors at once

| Pakistan
News coverage of Pakistani strikes in Iran on Jan.18, two days after Tehran said it attacked militant bases in Pakistan.   © Reuters

Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Lahore University of Management Sciences.

The Iranian military's unexpected missile and drone strikes against targets in Pakistan last month have generated many shock waves.

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