On November 2, 2015, the Pakistan Sector of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences held an expert meeting "Pakistan in Modern Geopolitics", which was attended by employees of the Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, IMEMO RAS, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and Moscow State Institute ofMO, ISAA MSU, RISI, Middle East Institute, Carnegie Endowment, Rossiya Segodnya news agency, etc. In the opening speech, Zav. S. N. Kamenev, President of Pakistan, emphasized the important geopolitical place of Pakistan in the international arena, which is determined not only by its geographical location (at the junction of South, Central and West Asia, and the Far East), but also by its significant demographic potential (over 200 million people) and the presence of nuclear weapons (according to the latest data of joint research by the Stimson Center and Carnegie Endowment Pakistan has 120 nuclear warheads). The unifying core of relations between Pakistan and its main foreign policy partners is currently international terrorism, the growth of regional extremism, and the danger of spreading the influence of the Islamic State in the states bordering Pakistan, primarily in Afghanistan. A special place is occupied by relations between Pakistan and India, which for decades have been characterized by tension, turning into armed clashes, and regular accusations of subversive activities against each other. There are frequent non-fulfillment of agreements reached, disruptions of negotiations on a number of controversial issues, primarily on Kashmir. In addition, along with the Control Line on the actual Pakistan-India border (which is two rows of barbed wire at a height of more than four meters), a new term has recently appeared in the Indian and Pakistani media "Working Border" between the two countries. Can we expect that the Line of Control will sti ... Read more