GENEVA: Pakistan on Tuesday warned the international community that India’s escalating military posture poses a serious threat to regional peace and undermines global nuclear stability.
Speaking during a plenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Bilal Ahmad, urged the world to take notice of New Delhi’s destabilising actions and rhetoric.
Ambassador Ahmad said that India launched an unprovoked military attack on Pakistan between May 6 and 10, targeting both civilian and military infrastructure under a “fabricated pretext” following the Pahalgam incident. He said that India rejected Pakistan’s call for a transparent and neutral investigation into the Pahalgam incident.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative said that India attacked Pakistan, ignoring global appeals for restraint, and abandoning its obligation under the UN Charter to resolve disputes peacefully.
“India’s actions violated the UN Charter, international law, and the principles of peaceful dispute resolution,” the Ambassador said. “Its attack struck homes, schools, mosques, and killed innocent men, women, and children. These are war crimes under international humanitarian law.”
“Between 7 and 10 May, India’s aggression resulted in the deaths of 40 civilians, including seven women and 15 children, and injured 121 more, among them 10 women and 27 children.”
Ambassador Ahmad said that India’s recent actions have vindicated Pakistan’s long-standing concerns about India’s strategic posture- its intentions and capabilities in the context of strategic stability in South Asia.
“India’s capabilities are not defensive or deterrent, they are designed for coercion and aggression. Indian jingoism is an early warning for all who mistakenly believe that Indian ambitions stop at its borders,” Pakistan’s Permanent Representative said.
“A permissive international behavior has enabled this dangerous buildup. Export control regimes have bent their rules for India, granting access to sensitive technologies, while Pakistan has been asked to sign up to phantom commitments divorced from strategic realities,” the Ambassador maintained.
India seeks to normalise escalation between nuclear-armed states
“India’s strategic posture, its intentions and capabilities are not contours of credible minimum deterrence. It signals a nuclear delinquent behaviour,” Ambassador Ahmad maintained.
Ambassador Ahmad said India’s strategic posture is driven by “reckless overconfidence” in a perceived military imbalance, reinforced by its repeated violations of international law. He added that this dangerous mindset is being further fuelled by “hate-fueled populist rhetoric” and “delusional expert analyses” that attempt to recast India’s military failures as so-called “brilliant strategic triumphs.”
“India is seeking to normalise the idea that military strikes between nuclear-armed states are acceptable,” Ambassador Ahmad warned. “The celebratory public commentary in India promoting this ‘new abnormal’ is blind to its cost to India.”
He stressed that any future acts of aggression by India would have dire consequences. “If India chooses the path of aggression again, the consequences — and the responsibility — will lie entirely at its door,” he asserted.
The Ambassador underscored that South Asia did not need another crisis. It required a future shaped by cooperation, not confrontation.
Pakistan’s right to self-defence
Ambassador Ahmad said Pakistan exercised its right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter through a calibrated and proportionate response named Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos, aimed solely at Indian military targets directly involved in the aggression.
“In this process, the Indian Air Force lost aircrafts, reports of which were widely covered by the international media,” Ambassador Ahmad claimed.
He said that Pakistan intercepted over 84 loitering munitions and drones launched by India and rejected claims made by Indian media, calling them “ludicrous” and designed to manufacture war hysteria.
The Ambassador warned that India’s growing arsenal, aggressive military doctrines, and apparent disdain for restraint constituted a “nuclear delinquency.”
He cited India’s deployment of nuclear weapons at sea, increasing long-range missile tests, and development of anti-satellite weapons as part of a destabilizing strategic posture aimed at coercion rather than credible deterrence.
🇵🇰 Ambassador Bilal Ahmad, Permanent Representative, addressed the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva today, warning that India’s escalating military posture threatens regional peace and global nuclear stability.
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He further criticized India’s “new normal” doctrine, articulated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the May conflict, which espouses unilateral pre-emptive strikes as a legitimate policy.
“No other nuclear-armed state behaves with such recklessness,” said Ambassador Ahmad. “India seeks to normalize military strikes between nuclear-armed neighbours. This is dangerous and unacceptable.”
India’s aggressive strategic posture
Ambassador Bilal Ahmad highlighted that India’s ideological shift has manifested in an increasingly aggressive strategic posture.
“Over the past decade, India has amassed vast quantities of unsafeguarded plutonium, deployed nuclear weapons at sea, and significantly ramped up its missile testing, including systems with ranges exceeding 5,000 kilometres,” he said.
He further noted that India has canisterised its missiles and is visibly moving toward a counterforce, launch-ready posture—actions that suggest a departure from credible minimum deterrence.
“This is not a doctrine of restraint. It is a clear preparation to project power far beyond South Asia,” the Ambassador warned.
He also recalled India’s 2019 test of an anti-satellite weapon, calling it a destabilising step that undermines space security and reflects a broader trend of strategic recklessness.
Calling India’s behaviour “fueled by Hindutva ideology, hate-fueled populism, and delusional triumphalism,” the Ambassador lamented that global export control regimes have enabled India’s strategic buildup while ignoring Pakistan’s repeated warnings.
Unresolved Jammu and Kashmir dispute
He urged the Conference to revisit double standards in the non-proliferation regime and reminded the forum that South Asia remains one of the most volatile nuclear regions, primarily due to the unresolved Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
“Lasting peace in South Asia is impossible without a just settlement of the Kashmir issue in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions,” he told the diplomats.
Ambassador Ahmad also condemned India’s recent remarks on holding the Indus Waters Treaty “in abeyance,” terming it an unlawful act of aggression. He warned that any attempt to divert or block Pakistan’s rightful share would be met with necessary measures.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative reiterated Pakistan’s principled commitment to peace, underscoring that it must not be mistaken for weakness.
“We are a sovereign nation with resilient institutions and a foreign policy grounded in international law,” he said. “Our commitment to peace is our strength—but we will not hesitate to defend ourselves.”
