Abstract:
The Middle East has been in a flux ever since the US-led invasion of
Iraq in March 2003. Things deteriorated further in the wake of the “Arab
Spring.” Both of these developments were hoped to usher in an era of
democratic openness in the Middle East. They have, however, brought in
their wake only political instability and war, though they did succeed in
toppling some deeply entrenched dictatorships. The fallout of the crisis in
the Middle East has spawned several policy challenge for Pakistan vis-àvis its relations with the Middle East: growing threat of sectarianism,
violent extremism and terror, domestic polarization and threats to its
economic development. Tackling these challenges necessitates the
country revisits it’s foreign as well as domestic policies
