'Pakistan can work as a bridge between US, China'.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister's Special Assistant on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf Saturday said that Pakistan was beginning talks with new US administration on new dimensions to further enhance the bilateral ties and collaborate on global challenges of common interest.

'Our concerns about India will also be put forth to newly elected US president but our prime focus will be on the issues of global health, investment in Pakistan and others', he said while speaking to Radio Pakistan's current Affair program. He said we are going to adopt a different approach in strengthening Pak-US relations.

There is a possibility of cooperation for the implementation of climate change agreements, he mentioned.

Pakistan can work as a bridge between the US and China in the evolving global order in the coming years, he hoped.

Pakistan focuses economic security paradigm: Dr Moeed

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security and Strategic Policy Planning, Dr Moeed Yusuf, has said that Pakistan is a country squarely focused on the economic security paradigm while India, in contrast, is pursuing Hindutva ideology with an expansionist agenda.

He said this while addressing a webinar titled 'Indian Chronicles: India's Disinformation Campaign against Pakistan' organised by the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS) here yesterday.

He said that India must stop its subversive activities against Pakistan and resolve the Kashmir issue under the international law to bring peace in the region as there was no scope for peace under the current circumstances.

'In contrast, India was pursuing Hindutva ideology with an expansionist agenda, and had a conflict with every single neighbour, and had broken all international law obligations - the classic example of a rogue state,' he added.

He stressed that malicious campaign against Pakistan had been going on even before the latest revelations of 'Indian Chronicles' which was just the tip of the iceberg.

Talking about Islamabad's response, he informed the participants that Pakistan had written to the EU Parliament and investigations were already underway. He said that this was a failure of the UN system that allowed such fake NGOs to function, and questioned whether country, like India should even be...

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