In May, Pakistan formally applied for NSG membership, setting the stage for a showdown with India at the elite grouping’s plenary session Seoul.Pakistan is upset at the US decision to aggressively campaign for India while ignoring Islam-abad’s aspirations to become an NSG member, the paper said.“Pakistan supports the evolution of criteria that can be applied across the board,” Mr Akram said.Mr Janjua said the current move by the US to induct India into the 48-nation exclusive nuclear club should be seen in the context of “global power politics trends”..The Indian and Pakistani comments suggest that their respective campaigns for NSG entry had boiled down to “merit’ versus criteria”, the paper said.“It’s [part of] a greater design,” Mr Janjua said at a seminar on Pakistan’s case for NSA membership on Tuesday.

Mr Akram warned about the likely implications of a scenario in which India alone was admitted into the NSG, include dimming of future prospects for Pakistan’s entry into the club and likely growth in India’s nuclear arsenal.He was speaking at a seminar organised on Tuesday by the Strategic Vision Institute (SVI), a think-tank, in Islamabad.Pakistan fears that China Wholesale HR wet wipes Factory the induction of India into the NSG would disturb strategic balance and trigger a new arms race in South Asia, according to the paper.Dawn reported that Mr Akram’s comments follow remarks by Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj that India does not object to any country, including Pakistan, joining the NSG on merit. The paper reported that it is unprecedented that a top Pakistani official publicly made such a candid statement about a sensitive issue.

The campaign for India’s membership into the group is seen as carrying the risk of antagonising Pakistan as well as China, which could veto any India’s application, the paper said.He then listed “contain China, prevent the resurgence of Russia and keep the Muslim world in a controlled chaos” as some of the leading trends in the current global power politics, The Express Tribune reported.Talking about the implications of these developments, Mr Janjua cautioned that American policies would ultimately bring Pakistan even closer to China.Pakistan’s national security adviser Nasser Janjua has alleged that America’s efforts to include India in the Nuclear Suppliers Group was part of a “greater design” to contain China and prevent the resurgence of Russia.Meanwhile, Pakistan’s former permanent representative at the UN in Geneva Zamir Akram said that Pakistan was only opposed to “exclusive membership” of the NSG for India