Khaled Ahmed writes in : Friday Time, Review Our periodic discovery of Pak-US ‘honeymoons’ forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3429 [1] “When Pakistan’s prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan visited the United States in 1950 his speech-writer Ahmad Shah ‘Patras’ Bokhari got him to say the following words against the off-putting American no-friends-no-foes principle in foreign policy: ‘A statesman, well known in history, speaking of his own country, once said that it had no eternal friends and no eternal enemies but that it had eternal national interests. Personally I believe that is too cynical a view to take of the foreign relations of any country, unless the word “interests” is interpreted very widely. But perhaps for some people it is a good starting point for the study of foreign relations’….” |
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[1] https://patrasbokhari.com/forum.atimes.com/topic.asp%3FTOPIC_ID%3D3429
[2] http://www.thefridaytimes.com/page8.shtml