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This is apropos a letter to the Editor titled “NATO distances itself from Trump’s Iran strategy” carried by the newspaper on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and yesterday. The optics of prioritizing external regime narratives over domestic unrest have not gone unnoticed by the public or by opinion leaders across the political spectrum.

The moral dimension of the debate is equally charged. Advocates of non-intervention argue that international law, however imperfect, rests on the foundational principle of sovereignty. No state, they contend, possesses an inherent right to reshape another’s political order through force. This argument gains potency when juxtaposed with the humanitarian toll of past interventions—civilian casualties, displacement, and long-term instability that linger long after the last troops withdraw.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2026

Qamar Bashir

The writer is a former Press Secretary to the President, An ex-Press Minister at Embassy of Pakistan to France, a former MD, SRBC Macomb, Detroit, Michigan

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