ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi urging need to shun destructive security paradigms and doctrines in international relations said that world order should be based on rules, morality and ethics for making world a better place for everyone. He said that doctrines such as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), Humane Warfare and Cold War mentality should be discontinued and replaced with a philosophy of total peace, where war was completely eliminated. Addressing special session of Margalla Dialogue, an interactive and policy-driven discussion on theme of ‘Navigating Great Power competition: Developing World Perspective’

President said that destructive philosophies and ideas needed to be replaced with philosophy of total peace where resorting to war was not an option. This, he added, was possible when all nations and nation-states and people living in them were treated with dignity, honour and respect without any discrimination on basis of colour, creed, race or language.

He said that principle of giving preferred status to some nations in the form of VETO power should have no place in new world order which, based on experience had potential to be misused to bring misery and war to less powerful nations. He stated that world powers had been pursuing philosophy of Mutually Assured Destruction, Humane Warfare and Cold War, where every nation was producing lethal and dangerous weapons having ability to destroy entire world many times over by investing precious resources.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 18 2022

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