Pak envoy in Kabul spells out challenges facing Pakistan
Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan Ambassador Asif Durrani on Wednesday highlighted that Pakistan’s internal and external challenges posed due to its geographical position with India continues to work on anti-Pakistan pursuits, security threats from Afghanistan-based terrorists and the conflict in the Middle East.
Ambassador Durrani was speaking at an international conference, titled, “Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”, hosted by the Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East & Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), in collaboration with the FriedrichEbert-Stiftung Pakistan Office.
Speaking as the chief guest, he said that Pakistan’s neighbourhood is infested with challenges, conflicts and disputes, further compounded by major powers’ rivalry. In the past, he added that the Iranian revolution, the break up of the Soviet Union and the rise of China created new paradigms for regional peace and security.
He underlined the concern that the Ukrainian crisis is considered the revival of ‘Cold War rivalry’; the Israel-Hamas conflict has further compounded the global war; the Iran-Israel conflict if not contained urgently can engulf the Middle East and beyond.