The world is a global village now. It is closely linked as never before. It has drastically undergone many changes also. No one did ever thought in his wildest dreams that the American president would one day land in Havana where he would be given a red carpet welcome by the Cuban president, who is brother of dictator Fidel Castro on whose life as many as nine attempts had been made by the American CIA since 1959 when he fell out with Washington?
Is Cuba going to discard socialism and adopt the capitalism- oriented economy?Next few months would provide an answer to this question.
As the minutes tick by, the election campaign for the presidential elections in the US due in coming November is gaining momentum too. The prospective Republican Party’s candidate Donald Trump has annoyed many minorities, including, the Muslims living in the US by his racist uncalled for remarks against them which might cost him his elections. Many political observers liken him to the newly-elected leader of the Britain’s Labour Party. Both of them seem to hard liners, having pre-conceived notions on many international issues. With friends like them, they believe, the Republican and Labour Party in the US and UK respectively don’t need any enemy.
Sometimes back it was in the air that the Russian leader Putin is to visit Islamabad shortly. That visit has been put on hold for the time being which is not a good news. Pakistan must revive its ties with Moscow as early as possible. In our over-enthusiasm to appease the Yankees we had gone out of the way to annoy Moscow which is our close neighbour and with whom we should never have, in the first place, spoiled our relations. Better late than never. We should make amends for our faults and bridge the gaps in our relationship with it.
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