In our daily discourse when we talk or think about the foreign relations of Pakistan with other countries we usually think about India, China, U.S.A, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Relations with other states normally have been considered as less important for us and least of those are the African countries. African continent consists of at least 54 countries and yet we do not show any concern about our relations with those countries. This depicts our sheer carelessness and ignorance. African continent does has image problem. African countries have been traditionally been considered as instable, warn torn and not important enough to see them as diplomatic and trade wise important. This scenario has changed and is changing continuously. Countries have grown very much and have established a kind internal stability with varying degrees. African countries have grown economically now the combined economic size of top 10 African countries is upto 2 trillion USD with Nigeria and South Africa o
When weather is becoming cold political atmosphere has become hot. Combination of poor governance and political turmoil is potent one. Current situation seems to be having both. Recent APC has clearly unnerved the government. Nawaz Sharif went further and attacked the real power holders through his speeches. Those speeches have largely been responded by government’s spokes persons as anti-state or by labelling some opponents as traitors. Power holders have also tried to discredit the opposition’s allegations by announcing their meeting with members of opposition parties. Some opponents have been called by NAB especially after the APC. The so called PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement) has announced its leadership and its timetable for processions. So see that if they will be able to get sizeable crowd on streets and if they do then it will create more problems for the government politically and from governance aspect. Reasons Let’s come to the reasons due which