As China is helping Pakistan to fix its economic crunch, it has a perfect cure to fix Pakistan’s security issues under the framework of the Global Security Initiative (GSI).

Over the last few months, terror attacks have been taking a heavy toll on the security land­scape of various parts of Pakistan, especially those areas where Chinese nation­als have been working on projects either related to CPEC or not.

In Pakistan, the issue of terror­ism is very old fuelled by profuse geo-strategic, geo-political and geo-economic conditions. A slew of terrorist networks mostly spon­sored by TTP, BLA or India have been uprooted through many mil­itary-led operations but they rear their ugly heads soon. Hideous re­surgence stipulates deficiencies in counterterrorism strategies that can be tinkered with the close col­laboration of Chinese anti-terror­ism measures put in place by the GSI. Global Security Initiative was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping on 21th April 2022. It identifies six commitments in­cluding common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable se­curity, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all coun­tries, abiding by the purpose and principles of the UN Charter, tak­ing the security concerns of all countries seriously, peacefully re­solving disputes between coun­tries through dialogue, and main­taining security in both traditional and non-traditional fields.

By rejecting confrontations among different groups, it stresses the connection between local........

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