Pakistan’s New PM is a Brilliant Business Manager

Dr. Munr Kazmir
7 min readApr 12, 2022

Power changed hands and Pakistan remains stable. To keep it that way, world leaders should do three things to support the new leadership.

Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during his swearing in ceremony on April 10, 2022. (photo: Twitter @Atifrauf79)

In our quickly-changing international landscape, maintaining stability and security worldwide has become more important than ever.

Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has become crystal clear that the unfortunate conflict could have, and should have, been prevented. Foreign policy experts and elected officials have no trouble explaining- in retrospect- what went wrong and how the international community failed Ukraine.

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, and useful- if world leaders use it to take the types of diplomatic and economic actions which could support stability elsewhere. Some proactive economic and diplomatic measures are painless, unimpeachable and beneficial for all parties.

The Ukraine will not be the last test faced by Western leaders.

Considering Ukraine, the recent news that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from his post by a no-confidence vote was met with somewhat less than enthusiasm by the global community.

In fact, this change is the best thing that could have happened in many ways. It does not betide instability in Pakistan; quite the opposite.

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