Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday said that blocking the Indian preferential access to Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is important.

“It is so flagrantly asymmetrical and inimical to regional stability, it cannot hold if we play our minimum diplomatic cards,” she said in a statement on security challenges mounting in the region and beyond.

“We are in dire need of strategic focus on the western border, on India, on America, and even with the CPEC, which must not become our lost opportunity, but I fear that there is little interest, capacity or focus on such vital matters.”

She further said that there was no calculated pre-emptive messaging, no signaling of stabilising intent, only what she referred to as “reactive patch-up diplomacy”.

“This government-on-snooze may well not be able to hold Pakistan’s advantage, gained by the PPP government by moving on the Gwadar-China port ties and investment comfort with China via currency swap mechanisms,” she maintained.