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(1) Our periodic discovery of Pak-US ‘honeymoons’
by Khaled Ahmed writes in :
Our periodic discovery of Pak-US ‘honeymoons’
Khaled Ahmed’s A n a l y s i s
“When Pakistan’s prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan visited
the United States in 1950 his speech-writer Ahmad Shah
‘Patras’ Bokhari got him to say the following words
against the off-putting American no-friends-no-foes
principle in foreign policy: ‘A statesman, well known in
history, speaking of his own country, once said that it
had no eternal friends and no eternal enemies but that
it had eternal national interests. Personally I believe
that is too cynical a view to take of the foreign
relations of any country, unless the word “interests” is
interpreted very widely. But perhaps for some people it
is a good starting point for the study of foreign
relations'....”
(2) A.S. Bokhari and
the UNICEF
Akram Piracha in the Raza Rumi Blog “All Things
Pakistan”
Says:August 5th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
pakistaniat.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/guest-post-patras-bokhari
A little known contribution of Bokhari is the survival
of UNICEF, which was about to be disbanded after having
completed its humanitarian mandate in the WW2 devastated
Europe
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