Opinion Print edition: 2025-10-19

‘Trump’s gamble’

Published October 19, 2025 Updated October 19, 2025 03:35am

This is apropos three letters to the Editor from this writer carried by the newspaper on Thursday, Friday and yesterday. It is this human cost that makes the current trajectory so alarming. Americans, resilient and innovative, do not deserve humiliation at home or antagonism abroad.

They deserve leaders who strengthen alliances, foster diplomacy, and pursue prosperity through cooperation rather than confrontation. Instead, they are witnessing the erosion of goodwill with neighbours, partners, and global institutions, while being asked to shoulder the economic pain of tariffs and shutdowns.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2025

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