Dr. Asma Shakir Khawaja , Executive Director, CISS AJK, spoke as discussant at the launch of the Islamabad Paper titled “Commentary on Western Assessments of the India-Pakistan Crisis of May 2025”, organized by ACDC-ISSI.

💫 Her overview of Amb Zamir Akram’s work highlighted the urgent need to ‘decolonize’ Western-centric narratives, particularly those concerning terrorism that have been instrumentalized against Pakistan.

▶️ She suggested that, Pakistan should advocate for forensic transparency.
🛑She said that India’s so-called ‘new normal’ was illegal, unrealistic, and against the UN Charter.

🇵🇰Pakistan needed to tell the world that South Asia could not afford any wars. She asserted that Pakistan’s ‘Quid Pro Quo Plus’ response was the new normal.

🟥She also underscored the Data Asymmetry in existing knowledge bank.

➡️ She suggested that Pakistan should work to establish reliable crisis de-escalation mechanisms to prevent future wars instead of leaving the region’s fate to extremist ideologies like Hindutva.