Friday, June 08, 2007

DAR AL ISLAM: THE UMMAH NEEDS TO CREATE A "COLLECTIVE SECURITY DOCTRINE"

Muslim states urged to evolve collective security doctrine
By Our Reporter


ISLAMABAD, June 7: Speakers at a seminar on Thursday urged all Muslim countries to evolve a collective security doctrine in the face of the current challenges facing them. Speaking at the seminar, ‘US-Iran relations: emerging trends, security challenges and implications,’ organized by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), they said Muslim states needed to have complete unity among their ranks and file and evolve a common mechanism in dealing with emerging challenges and threats to them.

Former foreign secretary Tanvir Ahmad Khan observed that the United States not only wanted to transform the Muslim world geographically but also divide its faith to weaken it.

He termed Iran’s nuclear programme as the most transparent in the world as it had signed a nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and an additional protocol, and so far, nothing had been proved against it.

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