When you give more importance to someone then yourself, you tend to lose your importance in their eyes. This was what happened with Nawaz Sharif on his first visit to US as a prime minister of Pakistan to strengthen Pakistan and United state relationship but did that happened? My answer to that question is a straight No.
Starting from his arrival at the Washington airport, our prime minister wasn’t received by US officials but diplomats which is a very obvious eye opener for people thinking of this meeting as a success, that where this relationship is heading. In contrast to that if Barak Obama was to visit Pakistan, All officials including our Prime Minister would have been there standing in their respect. There is no problem giving people respect and importance but more significant is to get that level of respect and importance in return which Premier did not get then PM was to host important issues with the US President including Drone Attacks, Regional security issues and energy crisis. US stance on all the above issues we know. For that, we cannot blame US but our prime minister because when you are a prime minister of a state and you are not good at second language (English) then you do not make a shame out of yourself by paper reading in front of the president of United States, which is a clear shame of Pakistan. Now even a student tries to avoid paper reading while he is presenting and here our Prime Minister trying to flatter US president by paper reading. A translator is appointed; wherever there is a language barrier and when our premier can go two days ahead of his meeting to Barak Obama then I think our Prime minister can afford a translator as well in order to get away from this shame. We will repeatedly making these mistakes until we start giving importance to self-appearance and more importantly to our reputation, what others think of Pakistan should be important to us in first place and later it will make an impact in the other person’s mind as well as it will help to form a respectable image of Pakistan.
