‘New emerging global realities shaping the world’

Islamabad:Margalla Dialogue 2024, a flagship interactive high-calibre intellectual discourse of Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) opened at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad. The two-day international conference deliberated on the theme, “Emerging Global Realities: Challenges and Response,” and will have Four Forums along with special sessions on International Law and Economics.

The inaugural session was addressed by Chairman Senate and former prime minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani. He agreed with the theme of the dialogue and said that new realities are shaping the world at large, and we are living in an era of alliances, including those that are breeding conflict and militarization such as AUKUS and QUAD in the region and beyond.

Gillani said it is multilateralism all around and Pakistan is steering a course of action that is responsible to the core. He also said that this realpolitik is stirring fragmentation and a renewed confrontation between the Great Powers, wherein marginalisation of security and economics are widely evident.

The Chairman Senate said that Pakistan looks forward to more democratisation, and an inclusive order wherein economic resilience and security decorum come to adjust transitional changes.

Earlier, President IPRI Amb. Dr Raza Muhammad said that Indian arrogance of not talking to Pakistan is at the root cause of problems, and said that we are living in an era where trade with Russia looms large despite sanctions on several member states of the region.

He talked about the emerging realities of CPEC and BRI, and remarked that China is unnecessarily portrayed as a revisionist state. The first distinguished Panel Discussion was titled, “Great Power Competition and its Impact on Peace and Security in Global South,” and was moderated by former ambassador to the US, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, and the keynote lecture was delivered by Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed. Prof. Vali Reza Nasr, Prof. Dr. Igor Panarin Nikolaevich and Prof. Dr. Victor Zhikai GAO were other elite speakers who made a convincing case of the evolving world order.