That Pakistan's Foreign Office was ambivalent in its response to the new US travel ban is a fact. The remarks of the Foreign Office spokesman do not give a clear direction of country's approach to the travel ban.
Business Recorder op-ed writer Rashed Rahman has correctly implied that our policymakers are clueless about how to deal with the Donald Trump challenge. According to the writer, "In a new, unfamiliar, different environment that Donald Trump seems embarked upon through step-by-step destruction of the comfortable assumptions of the past, Islamabad needs to wake up to the policy implications of what Trumpism really means." The situation, therefore, brooks no complacency; it requires the articulation of a clear-headed strategy without any further loss of time.
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