Author name: Imtiaz Gul

By Imtiaz Gul* When  President  Barack  Obama  unveiled  his  “AfPak  Strategy” on 27 March 2009, most people in Pakistan reacted with outrage and rejection. The “Af-Pak” construct meant, for the first time in its sixty- two year existence, their country had been downgraded and bracketed with the war-ravaged, violence-torn and dysfunctional Afghanistan. The Pakistan government