BRUSSELS: Engagement between European Union (EU) and Pakistan on unconventional threats is imperative to bring peace and prosperity world over.
These were unanimous view of the experts during a study tour event in Brussels. The experts from various Pakistani educational institutions have agreed that world security is now more threatened by non-traditional challenges than traditional ones.
The study tour was jointly organized by German think-tank Hanns Seidel Foundation’s (HSF) Pakistan chapter and the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies (CGSS) Islamabad.
The experts were of the view that cooperation on unconventional threats to the world, such as climate change, food security and migration will bring peace and prosperity to the region.
Besides climate change, other threats world is facing are food security, water management, migration and digitization, the experts said, adding the list also includes misinformation and misinformation and these issues are leading to the realization that non-conventional threats can do more harm to humanity in future.
Everything in today’s world is inter-linked and it is important for people to come together and talk to each other about resolving these issues. The purpose of this visit is also to bring the experts of Europe and Pakistan closer to each other.
CGSS chief executive Lt-Colonel (retd) Khalid Taimur Akram, who was leading the delegation’s visit to EU has said that the aims and objectives of the visit. He said that the delegation was part of an exchange program to discuss non-traditional security challenges in Pakistan and Europe with various EU institutions, European Commissions, Parliament, civil society organizations, NATO experts and different DGs of EU agencies.
The delegation included Lt-Colonel (retd) Akram, Dr Ali, Dr Ashraf, Dr Summar Iqbal Babar from the Quaid-e-Azam University’s School of Politics in Islamabad, Assistant Professor in International Relations Timur Fahad Khan, media officer, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad Dr Muhammad Mukhi, Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at NUST, Prof Dr Tughral Yamin, HSF representative in Pakistan Dr Stephen Codella and HSF Head of Program Management Mehr Ghawas.
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