Maleeha Lodhi, former permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, has said how to deal with Kabul remains a major security and foreign policy challenge and a severe policy dilemma for Pakistan.

“There are obvious limits to a coercive approach and military response as a total breakdown and rupture in relations with Afghanistan is not in Pakistan’s interest especially as relations with India remain so fraught,” the diplomat said while speaking at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

According to Maleeha, for decades Pakistan’s security and foreign policy was aimed at averting a two-front scenario of hot borders with its neighbours but now it is faced with unstable and insecure borders on both the western and eastern fronts.

She said the present strains in Indo-US relati

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