Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi explained the government's four-point strategy for dealing with India and stressed the need to rely more on national power rather than looking to international organizations in a changing world.
Participating in a webinar titled "Annexation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir: Lessons for Regional Security" organized by the Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI), the Foreign Minister said that there is a "new world which is brave or grave". It depends on us what we have to deal with.
"This world is more uncertain, less predictable, and perhaps more passive for these reasons," he said.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi emphasized that the supportive system of international law of international organizations could not meet the expectations, so these countries have to rely on their own powers instead of looking to these organizations.
Explaining the government's strategy to tackle India's expansionist designs, he said the government was pursuing a four-pronged strategy to counter New Delhi's intentions, exposing its intentions. Pushing back, resisting through military means, creating an atmosphere of conflict resolution and confidence building, and participating in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Continuing the plan, the Foreign Minister added that efforts are underway to revive the Association of South Asian Regional Countries.
He had protested against the Foreign Office over the issue of Kashmir last week. Dr Shirin Mazari said that instead of looking at the issue on a larger scale, more attention was being paid to political dynamics. The plight of women and children in Kashmir should be aggressively highlighted.
"We have not made a meaningful appeal to women's organizations on the plight of Kashmiri women," she said.
Dr. Mazari argued that India was escalating provocations and taking steps in Kashmir that amounted to genocide and therefore increased the risk of war, warning that the conflict The effects will not be limited and the effects will not be limited due to unintended consequences and will also affect the neighboring countries.
He proposed to follow the model of the 1998 "Good Friday Agreement" for resolving the Kashmir dispute, in which all parties to the Northern Ireland dispute had participated and decades of violence had ended.
Apart from Pakistanis, the webinar was also attended by scholars and representatives of think tanks from Occupied Kashmir, China, Iran, Turkey, Bangladesh and Nepal.
