Pakistan’s former national security advisor Moeed Yusuf has expressed hopes that the Pakistan-India crisis will serve to be a lesson on bilateral mechanisms.

In a series of posts on X, he said: “India does not like to have third party involvement in peacetime dialogues between itself and Pakistan but the fact is that it has been eager and proactive in soliciting third party support during crisis moments ever since Kargil.”

“Sometimes it has worked for India, other times not. Pakistan too has looked to the third party consistently. Both have the third party built into their crisis calculus.

“This crisis was no different. India initiated the most serious outreach. I don’t understand why Indian govts don’t accept this reality. Nothing is embarrassing about reaching out to a third party if we don’t have good bilateral escalation control mechanisms in South Asia,” he said.