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Dr. Asma Shakir Khawaja, Executive Director, CISS AJK, in an interview on The Forum (Suno FM), praised Pakistan’s multi-alignment policy, crediting government leadership for strategic restraint.
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She contrasted this with India’s coercive, fear-based tactics, earlier used against Bangladesh, which failed to yield results against Pakistan.
Dr. Shakir noted that the U.S. and Europe favor diplomacy over power projection, unlike India’s positional dominance approach, which has eroded its regional credibility.
Center for International Strategic Studies Azad Jammu and Kashmir was established in Muzaffarabad on November 01, 2022. It is an autonomous, non-profit, non-partisan and multidisciplinary Research Center with a focus not limited to Kashmir only, but the regional and global dynamics influencing Pakistan.