US Choices, Global Consequences: Hina Khar On India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Broken International Architecture

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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4.7 • 830 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Pakistan's PM Imran Khan, one of Vladimir Putin’s few friends, visited Moscow. But his trip did not go down well in the US. With Washington ready to downgrade its relationship with Islamabad, Khan is looking to form new friendships to protect Pakistan's strategic interests. In this episode of the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer talks to Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Hina Khar about Pakistan’s future, Afghanistan, and India. Who bears responsibility for the Afghan humanitarian crisis? Military interventions, Khar says, cast a “deep shadow on the entire democratic value system.” She argues that the best way to help end Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis is to talk to the Taliban. Pakistan's former top diplomat also says it's time for her country to take a step back from the global stage to focus on its mounting domestic challenges and concentrate on issues like reducing Pakistan's huge dependence on foreign aid and moves in Kashmir. Khar asserts that India is also endangering regional politics as a member of the Quad. Listen to Ian’s interview with Hina Khar.

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0:00.0	We clearly see a trend, perhaps more propagated by the Americans and the Chinese,
0:05.0	where the world is being divided into two different affairs.
0:08.4	And pretty much everybody is saying, which camp do you belong to?
0:10.5	I say we belong to the Pakistani camp.
0:14.2	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.
0:17.6	This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television.
0:21.5	I'm Ian Bremmer, and today, as the world focuses on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we take you
0:27.8	to another nation caught in the middle of great power politics. Since 9-11, Pakistan has played a key
0:34.3	and often fraught role in America's global war on terror.
0:38.3	But deepening economic ties between Islamabad and Beijing over the past few years
0:42.3	signals to shift eastward in Pakistan's foreign policy orientation.
0:45.3	The Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to Moscow on the eve of Putin's invasion into Ukraine
0:51.3	only serves to reinforce that.
0:57.7	Recently at the Munich Security Conference, I sat down with Pakistan's former foreign minister, Hina Kar.
0:59.7	She thinks her country should walk away from the global stage, turn its focus inward.
1:05.3	Let's get to it.
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