Dealing with a cussed Pakistan

On the very day that Najam Sethi, an influential newspaper editor and presently the caretaker chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, ordered a judicial inquiry into the murder of Sarabjit Singh, an official in Islamabad pre-empted its conclusions by attributing the death to a ‘scuffle’ in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail. Such lack of coherence in Pakistan’s conduct vis-a-vis the outside world is as patent as its record of flip-flops. This is essentially due to the role that the powerful army continues to play in strategic and foreign policy matters.

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