International politics post Abottabad and Pakistan
After the killing of Osama bin Laden via a secret operation in Abottabad, there are bound to be changes in global politics involving the US, western counties, Pakistan and India.
LAST FEW months international poilitics was prominently in news.The year begins with Jasmine revolution in Tunisia followed by successive change of guard in Egypt and still the wave in Libya and Yemen...Amidst this, political experts in the east and the west were engaged in future political discourse, the world is looking for, but suddenly the psyche of news has shifted its focusl from the Middle East to Pakistan. 
George W. Bush and his party could not be victorious because Americans felt that Bush was not capable of saving the "American nation" and American safety and so the change was brought about by Barack Obama. Obama's arrival was welcomed by challenges from the domestic front and international loss of nerve. Secondly, Obama's policy of retreating US soldiers from Afghanistan from mid June and thirdly the coming elections (after successive loss at various states), the Obama regime was in acute need of some positive agenda. This first positive agenda was well crafted in a secret mission in Abottabad, where Osama reportedly was hiding in a fortress like building right under the nose of the high security zone of Pakistan. From post-Abottabad events, two questions have emerged. Firstly, the unilateral action of the US without acknowledgement of a sovereign nation and so the question "Does the international terrorism give an open key to the US to undermine the sovereignty of a nation?" and if so the realist school of international politics. "Every nation is at war with other nation for its national interest is true and so the near world politics will be marked by the war on different grounds. Secondly, given such undermining of sovereignty, why not Pakistan did not approach the UN and why the UN is silent? It implies the UN is following the stands of League of Nations and if so then the UNO itself, in the period of globalisation requires democratization of UNSC to make it more accountable and a responsible international organization? The major question that also comes in this context is, "was the aid and funding of the US to Pakistan misused for long and was not known to US?". If accepted, as repotedly accused by US, brings further ambiguity in the politics of Pakistan. The way ISI, Al-Qaeda, Lashker-E-Toiba and political elites of Pakistan are in hands and global nexus is a threat to nuclear safety in Pakistan and so requires the global powers to ask for nuclear disarmament in Pakistan. Having said so, the security challenges at globel level are more alarming now because Al-Qaeda would like to take revenge and the revenge could be manifested at more installations of US and other liberal and democratic countrys' interests. The post Abottabad situations at global politics also reflects that Pakistan is a weak state at domestic front and at international diplomatic level, besides it proves Pakistan as the epicenter of terrorism. This means Pakistan has to face more challenges especially from the US and neighboring country India. As a conclusive remark, it could be said that the post Abottabad international politics is going to be the politics of new political oppurtunism, new alliances, new diplomacy, soverreignty, re-countering terrorism and especially the role of UNO has to be redefined to meet the serious challenges emerging out of this new global order for supremacy of power to bring about a new balance of power.
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