Major destabilizing weapons deteriorated regional peace, security: Munir Akram
New York: Pakistan again stands for people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), as Ambassador Munir Akram, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN said that the decades-long dispute wherein not only the rights Kashmiris are being brutally suppressed and have but has caused the two armies deployed in close proximity coupled with induction of major destabilizing weapons has severely deteriorated the regional security situation.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the situation has further been exacerbated, he added, by the induction of major destabilizing weapons and war-fighting doctrines, India’s sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan and the absence of dialogue and international action, Ambassador Munir Akram said.
“Unless determined steps are taken by the international community to address this situation, it could emerge as the proximate cause of a regional and global catastrophe,” the envoy said.
“In the immediate aftermath of South Asia’s nuclearization, Pakistan offered to conclude a ‘Strategic Restraint Regime,’ envisaging reciprocal limitations on nuclear, missile and conventional capabilities, together with efforts to resolve outstanding disputes, especially the festering dispute over IIOJK.
Ambassador Munir Akram warned the United Nations (UN) Disarmament Commission that New Delhi’s policies threaten regional peace as they have caused South Asia’s security environment to be “volatile and explosive”.
He raised the matter with UN Disarmament office and he lamented India’s weapons acquisitions and hostile military posture.
“The security environment in South Asia has deteriorated sharply in recent years, as the region’s largest state has embarked on a program of massive armament,” Ambassador Munir Akram said during a session of the intergovernmental organization’s subsidiary body.
Stressing that India has adopted war-fighting doctrines such as the “Cold Start” which envisages a surprise attack on Pakistan, and a “limited war under the nuclear overhang”, Ambassador Munir Akram said: “It [New Delhi] is now the world’s largest arms importer, and is being supplied by its ‘strategic partners’ with nuclear, missiles, conventional and other destabilizing weapons.”
His remarks come after Pakistan’s Usman Jadoon was elected Chairman of the Disarmament Commission’s 2024 session whose three-week session commenced a day earlier.
Pakistan, he pointed out, has sought to achieve the objective of undiminished security at the lowest possible level of armaments, noting it had proposed the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia.
“Unfortunately, 20 after the adoption of this commitment, one South Asian State unilaterally conducted nuclear weapons explosions,” the Pakistani envoy said, adding that Islamabad was obliged to follow suit.
