Pakistan, Jan. 26 -- President Joe Biden takes up the office as the 46th President at extremely challenging times for the world in general and for the US in particular. The Trump era will be remembered as an unprecedented "Era of Great Disruption" in US history with regard to Trump's domestic policies, which were divisive and polarizing in their impact on the US as a federation and as a democracy as well as in the international arena. Trump's mishandling of COVID -19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented health catastrophe in the US with about four hundred thousand deaths, the highest number of deaths in the world caused by COVID -19.

The domestic divisions brought to fore by the electoral disputes and Trump's refusal to concede defe...