This seminar aimed to discuss the challenges to regional security in the wake of Indian actions in the diplomatic, media and military domains during the run-up to the elections. [...] o The sabre rattling and aggressive posturing by Indian political, military and the RSS leadership against Pakistan is increasingly becoming offensive and in sync with the ideologically motivated expansionary idea of ‘Akhand Bharat.’ In this context, there is a delusion on the Indian side of undoing the Partition, taking over Gilgit-Baltistan and dismantling Pakistan using military force. [...] Thus, governance ought to be in the interests of 90 per cent of the people of Pakistan instead of in the interests of the 4 per cent economic, political, social, religious and military elites. [...] The speaker asserted that: “The current Indian leadership will go to any length in harming Pakistan and is willing to take reckless decisions, disregarding the sovereignty of the neighbouring states for the realisation of the greater Indian dream.” Politico-Military Factors The Air Marshal underscored the shift in US policy in the region and its strategy to strengthen India as a bulwark against Ch. [...] “Hence ‘Anti-Pakistanism’ has been and will remain the most prominent theme for mobilisation in India.” Dr Afzal stated that the secular elements in Indian politics projected Pakistan as reactionary, communal, living in the past, the result of the Raj conspiracy, and a failed experiment, while the Hindu nationalists projected Pakistan as a threat, a main target of revenge for 1,000 years of enslav.
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