WHEN will the United States extract oil from Pakistan and when will it be exported to India? That will take time.

However, this news surely carries the promise of a new era. Whether one takes it as sarcasm or analyzes President Donald Trump’s personality seriously, he is undoubtedly a businessman and all aspects of his politics originate from this fact. Any news coming from the world’s most powerful man should be seen in this context. This means that just as President Trump helped halt the Pakistan-India war, he now also wants to end the tensions between the two countries. What does it mean if tensions between Pakistan and India ease or come to an end? It inevitably means that the conditions that have created unrest within Pakistan will also begin to disappear.

God Almighty has blessed Pakistan with abundant oil and gas resources, but unfortunately, misfortune has always haunted it. A former official of the Oil and Gas Development Authority has revealed that oil and gas cannot be extracted from Balochistan and some other regions because powerful local groups........

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