How Will Pakistan Fare With New U.S. President?

On January 30, the late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal found himself in an unexpected position. He was unwitting proof of the new United States administration's claims that its brand new travel restrictions on the citizens of seven, mainly Muslim, countries were not a blanket "Muslim ban". For Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was sitting in Washington 48 hours after the travel ban had been introduced. He had not been denied entry to the US even though he is a politician from Pakistan, a country with "problems" as Donald Trump's senior aides have repeatedly pointed out in the days since the ban. "Perhaps we need to take it further," Mr Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus ominously told America and the world, mentioning Pakistan by name and indicating that the list of visa-proscribed countries may grow longer.