Pakistan has a long Cold War record of hitching its wagon to pacts, alliances and treaties to oblige Western governments to derive a geopolitical advantage against India
It took a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to push NATO countries into adopting, at the 2025 Hague Summit, a massive new defence spending target of 5 per cent of GDP by 2035
Successful test of indigenous air defence system shows depth of Indian defence research, how collaboration with private sector and foreign partners can fill gaps
