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How Pakistan thinks: Munir's outreach to Trump signals return to normal

The US never dropped Pakistan from the list of Major Non-Nato allies. India never got on to it, nor would it ever be an applicant for it

Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan PM
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Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. (Photo: PTI)

Shekhar Gupta

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Donald Trump in the middle, flanked by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to his right and Field Marshal Asim Munir to his left, is the most defining geopolitical image for us in India. As one who often sees the world through the prism of old Indian film music, this might make me instinctively start humming “duniya badal gayi, meri duniya badal gayi…” (the world has changed, see how my world has changed) from the 1950 Dilip Kumar-Nargis-Munawar Sultana classic Babul. 
The reason I won’t do so, or even commend it to you, isn’t just because Shakeel
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