Pakistan has threatened to continue militarising citing what it claimed was a “geo-strategic competition and the pursuit of military dominance by some states”, while mentioning India.
After Monday’s high-level meeting on maritime security at the UN Security Council, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Munir Akram sent a written statement to the Indian Mission to be included in the record of the session.
India is the current President of the Council and the meeting was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Akram asserted that “India has nuclearised the Indian Ocean and continues to induct advanced weapons systems and naval delivery platforms” with “hegemonistic designs”.
“In light of these developments, Pakistan will continue to take all necessary measures to maintain full spectrum deterrence and ensure its national security on land, in the air and at the sea,” he wrote.
In his address at the meeting, Modi called for resolving maritime disputes peacefully and cited the example in the South Asian region of India and Bangladesh reaching an agreement on their maritime boundary issues.
Moving beyond the ambit of the meeting’s agenda of a holistic approach to maritime security, the constitutionally Islamic republic’s representative accused India’s policies of being “currently driven by an extremist ‘Hindutva ideology’” which “pose an immediate and pervasive threat to international and regional peace and security”.
Pakistan has adopted a line of ad hominem attacks on India by attaching “Hindutva” to its statements.
Pakistan was not at the maritime security meeting as the participation was limited to members of the Council, UN officials and African Union President Felix- Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.
