Summary - SH

1) Pakistan’s National Action Plan (NAP), launched in 2014 after the APS Peshawar massacre, has largely failed to contain terrorism because its implementation collapsed under political inconsistency and institutional hesitation. The plan’s 20 points were comprehensive — from curbing hate speech and madrassa reforms to choking terror financing and reforming the criminal justice system — but in practice, the state prioritized kinetic operations over governance and ideology. The intricate links between criminal networks, narcotics trafficking, smuggling, and terrorism in Pakistan necessitate a comprehensive approach to security. Meanwhile, extremist narratives continued to spread through unregulated seminaries, social media, and weak education oversight. 2) The idea of free trade as a path to global peace has collided with a harsher reality: the U.S. and China are now locked in a high-stakes struggle for supremacy, willing to harm themselves if it hurts the other more. China’s rare earth export restrictions and America’s retaliatory tariffs show that commercial logic has been overtaken by strategic rivalry. The global rules-based system that once promised stability is unraveling, and other nations must confront this reality by safeguarding their own interests—recycling critical minerals, reducing dependence on Chinese supply chains, and prioritizing national security over idealism. The free-trade dream is over; survival now demands pragmatism.

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