Pakistan calls for steps to prevent outer space from emerging arms race.

NEW YORK -- At the United Nations, Pakistan has expressed concern over the threats posed by anti-satellite missile tests to regional and global stability and called for steps to prevent outer space from emerging as a new realm of conflict and arms race.

The concern was shown by Pakistan's delegate Husham Ahmed while speaking in a debate on Outer Space matters at the General Assembly's Disarmament and International Security Committee.

He drew attention to a demonstration of anti-satellite capabilities in South Asia earlier this year, obviously referring to India's testing of an anti-satellite weapon in an operation code named 'Mission Shakti'.

Husham Ahmed said in absence of strong legal instruments regulating the testing, development and deployment of anti-satellite weapons, other states could also follow the suit by...