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- Updated: January 15, 2017
Former army arch General (retd) Raheel Sharif has been invited to a annual assembly of a World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to pronounce about Pakistan’s successes in battling terrorism. This would be a initial time that a former army arch of Pakistan has been invited to pronounce during a WEF. Sharif will be articulate about terrorism in a digital age and tellurian confidence challenges, while according to some reports, he is also approaching to plead Chinese growth projects in Pakistan underneath a China Pakistan Economic Corridor. More than 2,500 participants from scarcely 100 countries will accommodate and attend during a forum, where on Pakistan’s front Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be in assemblage along with several state ministers and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. This will be an glorious event for Pakistan’s member to correlate and benefaction a country’s viewpoint to a world, generally a hurdles as a state battling extremism. We wish that a box Pakistan creates here helps benefit tellurian support for a country’s onslaught towards peace. Pakistan’s opening in battling terrorism post a Army Public School conflict in 2014 is recognized both during home and abroad. Terrorist attacks have almost reduced though of course, things are not good by any standard. The events in Balochistan in a past few months are justification adequate that a nation and a people are distant from safe.
Pakistan might have some tough questions to answer then. It has prolonged been seen by many countries as a state that has harboured militant groups. Moreover, if a stream spate of activists and writers going ‘missing’ continues and a ones ‘missing’ not recovered, Pakistan will have even worse questions to answer during a general forum. Already many countries, including a United States and a United Kingdom, have voiced their concerns on a matter. Particularly when articulate about terrorism in a digital world, Pakistan will have to explain how nonconformist groups can work openly online, while anyone expressing secular, magnanimous thoughts fears genocide by extremists or state oppression. Pakistan will need to purify adult a repute both in difference and actions.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 16th, 2017.
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