Pakistan considers India as an existential threat and will continue to make his effort of military modernization, including the development of nuclear weapons of the battlefield, to compensate for the conventional military advantage of India, said the world -world threat assessment of 2025 worldwide.
The evaluation was prepared by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency (Dia) and presented to the Armed Services Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives of the United States. Intelligence Subcommittee and Special Operations Based on the Information Available to May 11, 2025.
After the militant attack of April 22 in Cashmira busy, India made missile attacks in Pakistan. The missile attacks caused multiple rounds of missiles, unmanned aircraft and marademaler ammunition attacks and heavy artillery fire, by both military from May 7 to 10, when both countries agreed to high a complete fire.
The evaluation said that Pakistan is modernizing its nuclear arsenal and maintaining the safety of its nuclear materials and nuclear control and control. “Pakistan surely acquires WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] Applicable goods of foreign suppliers and intermediaries, “he said.
According to the evaluation, Pakistan mainly received the economic and military generosity of China, and the Pakistani forces carry out multiple military exercises combined every year with the Popular Liberation Army of China (PLA), including a new aerial exercise completed in November 2024.
“Foreign materials and technology that support Pakistan WMD programs are most likely acquired mainly of suppliers in China, sometimes they are transmitted through Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.”
He declared that during the next year, it is likely that the main priorities of the Pakistani army remain cross -border skirmishes with regional neighbors, growing attacks by the TTP and Baloch militants, anti -terrorist efforts and nuclear modernization. He said that despite Pakistan’s daily operations during the past year, militants killed more than 2,500 people in Pakistan in 2024.
He also said that terrorist attacks aimed at Chinese workers supporting the projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have also become a point of friction between the two countries, since seven Chinese citizens were killed in Pakistan in 2024.
According to the evaluation, Pakistan and Iran have taken measures, including high -level meetings, to reduce tensions after the two countries held unilateral air attacks in the territory of the other in January 2024 in response to cross -border terrorist attacks.
“In September 2024, Taliban and Pakistani border forces faced each other near border posts, which resulted in the death of eight Taliban combatants. In March 2025, Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged air attacks and artillery in the territory of each, each citing the alleged infrastructure of militant as objectives,” he said.
He declared that the security situation in southern Asia is made up of several factors, including terrorism and long -standing distrust among neighboring states, several of which are modernizing their military and nuclear capabilities.
“The terrorist activity in Afghanistan and Pakistan will challenge the military and security forces, and the ongoing tensions throughout the line of real control borders of India and China are able to increase rapidly. Russia and China continue the efforts to bring regional powers closer to their respective spheres of influence,” he added.
The evaluation said that the defense priorities of the Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi will probably focus on demonstrating global leadership, counteracting China and improving the military power of New Delhi.
“India sees China as its main adversary and Pakistan, plus an auxiliary security problem that must be managed, despite cross -border attacks in mid -May by the military in India and Pakistan.”
It is said that to counteract Chinese influence and promote its global leadership role, India is giving priority to advance in its bilateral defense associations in the Indian Ocean region through exercises, training, weapons sales and information exchange.
India has also increased trilateral participation in the Indo-Pacific region and actively participates in multilateral forums such as the quadrilateral, the BRICS, the Shanghai and ASEAN cooperation organization.
He said that China will continue to advance in selected association areas with Russia while avoiding actions such as openly providing material or lethal military assistance to Russia that can cause reputational or economic costs for Beijing.
