Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 2: Awami National Conference (ANC) has expressed serious concern over provocative statements by both India and Pakistan, saying that there is a need to embrace an overarching strategic stability regime and to shun aggressive security doctrines to reduce the possibility of a nuclear conflict.
ANC provincial president, Gian Singh in a statement issued today said that Confidence-building measures should be pursued to alleviate the “trust deficit” but should not be used as a substitute for the resolution of disputes besides economic co-operation and trade should be facilitated to develop mutuality of interest.
Adding further Singh said that the continued conflict and tension in the relationship between the two countries, whose rivalry has a nuclear dimension as well, cannot be in anyone’s benefit. The biggest beneficiaries of this prolonged conflict have been the extremist elements in both countries and, more recently, the non-state actors (NSAs).
“India and Pakistan, therefore, need to remove the causes of the tensions underpinning their relations” Singh asserted.
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