21st century is era of multiple power centres, says Khawaja Asif

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21st century is era of multiple power centres, says Khawaja Asif

APP Published April 26, 2017

Defence Ministers (L-R) Hossein Dehghan of Iran, Khawaja Asif of Pakistan and Raul Jungmann of Brazil attend the annual Moscow Conference on International Security. —Reuters

Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said that 21st century was an era of multiple power centres, renewed economic interdependencies and realignment of politico-strategic alliances.

While addressing a conference on International Security being held at Moscow, Asif said the Kashmir issue was a strategic flashpoint in south Asia and if left unresolved, the dispute had potential to threaten stability and peace of the entire region.

According to a statement issued in Islamabad, the minister stressed on the importance of conference to manage shared challenges including terrorism, socio-economic inequality, climate change, demography as well as the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Africa.

He thanked the defence ministry of Russian Federation for hosting 6th Moscow security conference. Defence Ministers of Iran, Brazil and India also made speeches on the occasion.

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M.Saeed

Apr 26, 2017 07:59pm

Unless we project Kashmir as a deliberately left unfinished agenda of British in Partition-47, it will continue to bewilder. With very relevant references to the identical cases from the other side of Junagarh, Manavadar and Hyderabad Duccan, world would fail to underside the twisted principles of India.

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Realty check

Apr 26, 2017 09:08pm

There are nearly 100 territorial disputes in the world, china, honking , Taiwan , Tibet ,Japan , Russia ,U.K. Spain ... and the list goes on . Do u think the world cares about Kashmir . Not a second anyone gives a thought, yea they make statements when some headlines pop up, bcoz they just have to make a statement. Welcome to the capitalistic world, its all business nowadays, there are no friends forever or enemies, it's purely business. Sorry to say say there is no ray of hope , just live with it.

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azam khan

Apr 26, 2017 11:00pm

@Realty check, thank you for supporting hopelessness. If you fall sick don't go to a doctor, just start criticizing the bad examples some bad doctors have set. Criticize the pharmaceutical industries for producing wrong medicines and let people know how hopeless it is to live in this otherwise beautiful world. Do not support any effort to liberate the freedom struggles anywhere in the world as they are going to be futile.

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Ths

Apr 27, 2017 03:26am

Moscow a great platform for Pakistan and India along with Iran better relations .

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logic

Apr 27, 2017 09:20am

Kashmir agenda finished with Shimla agreement. Russia and US knows that

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