PNN – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister highlighted that territorial disputes among Asia’s nuclear powers put the region’s stability at risk.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Dawn newspaper, Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, warned about the threats of unilateralism in the world, saying that stability in South Asia faces multiple threats, and cooperation among regional countries is essential to neutralize these threats.
Referring to the four-day conflict with India in May, he added that during 92 hours, the India-Pakistan war could have escalated to much more dangerous levels. This is part of a broader trend in which governments resort to the use of force to resolve disputes, ignoring international law and the United Nations Charter.
The Pakistani official emphasized that emerging technologies, transnational terrorism, and hybrid warfare, including the spread of misinformation, continue to threaten regional stability.
Ishaq Dar further noted that South Asia is a “complex set” that includes three neighboring nuclear powers—Pakistan, India, and China. These powers possess some of the largest armed forces in the world. The continuous accumulation of conventional and nuclear weapons in the region persists. Strategic stability is also fragile due to certain risky war doctrines in a nuclear environment.
He added that in the past 78 years, sustainable peace in South Asia has not been achieved, and disputes over resources—including India’s illegal and unilateral action in April to change the Indus Waters Treaty—have intensified tensions. He noted that interstate disputes and some longstanding unresolved conflicts, such as the Jammu and Kashmir issue, continue to threaten regional peace and stability.