Pakistan, Jan. 13 -- During my official trip to Washington DC in November 2020, I witnessed a lot of uncertainty on the outcome of America's most divisive presidential elections in living memory. Though President-elect Joe Biden won by a significant margin eventually after days of nail-biting suspense, a rude awakening was yet to be ascertained in light of how President Donald Trump chose to question the credibility of the outcome to his millions of supporters.

The morning Biden's victory was declared, I could see cheerful Democrat supporters descending upon the White House's outer perimeter with the entire city erupting into jubilations (DC being a Biden-Harris campaign stronghold). Though the crowd outside the White House wasn't exactl...