... ambition to change global order. Likewise, Islamabad determines its engagement with the multilateral arms control and disarmament initiatives by its security paradigm and the threat that it faces from India. Interestingly, despite undiminished threat from India, Pakistan has always espoused and supported disarmament ideal in an uncomplicated approach.During the negotiations on CTBT in 1996, Islamabad supported the treaty in principle and voted in favor. However, India’s opposition to the treaty forced it to ...
... very unlikely in the near future. Also, I am an Indian, so I am obviously biased towards India. However, for the purpose of this answer, I will try to stick more with facts and less with assumption about why I think India would have an upper hand in an India-Pakistan war. I do agree with Devika Dwivedi and Sajal Jain in their respective arguments. Additionally, here's what I think will work in India's favor - 1. Military: India has a clearly larger military with access to more defense reserves, budgets and ...
... centre for the forces fighting against the Soviet military in Afghanistan. Secondly, the uproar surrounding the news was whipped up by the information that the exercise may be held in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir, where
the interests of India, Pakistan and China
collide. It is hardly surprising that political analysts attempt to see this news proof of an emerging thaw in Russia–Pakistan relations, while at the same time searching for signs of growing problems in the Russia–India ...
... has been making a number of more or less successful attempts to diversify its supply routes, for example, through the Trans-Caspian pipeline.
An undeniable highlight of the past year has been the December 2015
launch
of the Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India pipeline project, also known as TAPI. A highly ambitious initiative with its roots going back to the former President of Turkmenistan, the gas pipeline project has been positioned as a pipeline for peace, a means of connecting Afghanistan with the ...
... Central Asia. As the first Eurasian organization it has joined, India sees the organization as a potential springboard for greater economic and security cooperation in the region.
While the Tashkent summit was a crucial step closer to membership for India and Pakistan, the summit proved to not be nearly as successful for another regional player. Despite its return to the global stage following the removal of UN sanctions, Iran’s reception at the summit did not live up to its expectations.
Iran’s ...
... directly affect the fundamental interests of all the SCO member states. The
initiatives put forward by President Putin
at the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Form with regard to a large-scale Eurasian partnership involving the EAEU, China, India, Pakistan and Iran may be promising in this regard (link in Russian).
Sergey Luzyanin:
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Model 2014–2015
The heads of state of the SCO member countries reaffirmed their support for the Silk Road Economic Belt. They also ...
... means for settling international conflicts.
Why is the organization expanding now? Is it due to new threats and challenges?
Of paramount significance were the SCO decisions taken at its 2015 summit in Ufa on the launch of the procedure for admission of India and Pakistan. The status of Belarus was elevated from partner to observer. More partners were invited, among them Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Nepal. Thus, the group now incorporates 18 states and about 44 percent of the globe's population.
The SCO is ...
... under which India pledged to provide aid in training military personnel and to supply certain types of arms. Islamabad saw the treaty as pretty much an attempt at a geopolitical encirclement of the country from the east and the west, while to the west Pakistan saw an alliance by India not only with Afghanistan but also with Iran.
Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Delhi was by all accounts intended to demonstrate a definite continuity in Kabul’s policy in the region, and its interest in economic aid and extensive cooperation ...
... considers nuclear power as the key to solving the problem of energy shortages faced by his country. In 2013, it was announced that the preparatory work for the construction of a new power unit at the Karachi NPP site
had been started
.
In contrast to India, Pakistan does not have its own reactor technologies, so the project is based on Chinese technologies. Critics of the
Sino-Pakistani cooperation
in the nuclear field voice concern that Beijing is contravening the guidelines of the NSG, which it joined ...
... political environment in South Asia. However, traditional differences between the two regional leaders – India and Pakistan – nearly torpedoed the Summit. Should this multilateral organization be analyzed from the perspective of the complex India-Pakistan relations, or should it be considered a solid platform for solving economic problems in the region?
Vyacheslav Belokrenitskiy
, Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor of MGIMO-University Oriental ...
