Pakistan considers India as an existential threat and will continue to pursue his military modernization efforts, including the development of Battlefield atom weapons, to equalize India’s conventional military advantage, 2025 worldwide truss evaluation said.
The evaluation was prepared by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was presented to the US Representative House’s Armed Services Sub -Committee on Intelligence and Special Operations based on information available from May 11, 2025.
After April 22, militant attacks in occupied Kashmir conducted India missile attacks in Pakistan. The missile strikes provoked several rounds of missile, drone and loiting ammunition attacks and heavy artillery-brand of both military from May 7 to May 10, when both countries agreed on a full ceasefire.
The evaluation said Pakistan modernizes his nuclear arsenal and maintains the security of its nuclear materials and nuclear command and control. “Pakistan acquires almost certainly wmd [Weapons of Mass Destruction] Applicable goods from foreign suppliers and intermediaries, ”it claimed.
According to the assessment, Pakistan is primarily the recipient of China’s economic and military Largess, and Pakistani forces are conducting several combined military exercises each year with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), including a new air exercise completed in November 2024.
“Foreign materials and technology that support Pakistan’s WMD programs are probably acquired primarily from suppliers in China, and sometimes the transmitter is through Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.”
It stated that the Pakistani military’s highest priorities over the next year will remain cross-border skirts with regional neighbors, rising attacks from TTP and Baloch militants, fighting terrorism and nuclear modernization. It said, despite Pakistan’s daily operations in the past year, killed militants more than 2,500 people in Pakistan in 2024.
It also claimed that terrorist attacks targeting Chinese workers supporting China -Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects also emerged as a frictional point between the two countries when seven Chinese citizens were killed in Pakistan by 2024.
According to the assessment, Pakistan and Iran have taken steps, including high -level meetings, to step down tensions after the two countries carried out unilateral air strikes on each other’s territory in January 2024 in response to cross -border terrorist attacks.
“In September 2024, the Taliban and Pakistani collided boundary forces near border posts, resulting in the death of eight Taliban warriors. In March 2025, Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged air and artillery strikes on each other’s territory, each quoting alleged militant infrastructure as the goals,” said. “
It said South Asia’s security situation is shaped by various factors, including terrorism and prolonged mistrust among neighboring countries, several of which modernize their military and nuclear capabilities.
“Terrorist activity in Afghanistan and Pakistan will challenge military and security forces, and ongoing tensions along India and China’s line of actual control boundary boundary are able to escalate quickly. Russia and China continue the efforts to bring regional powers closer to their respective influences,” added it.
The evaluation said that Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s defense priorities are likely to focus on demonstrating global leadership, counteracting China and improving New Delhi’s military power.
“India considers China its primary opponent and Pakistan more a supplementary security problem to be controlled, despite cross -border attacks in mid -May of both India and Pakistan’s military.”
It said to address Chinese influence and increase its global leadership role that India prioritizes its bilateral defense partnerships in the Indian Ocean region through exercises, education, weapon sales and information sharing.
India has also increased trilateral engagement in the Indo-Stockhav area and actively participates in multilateral forums, such as the square, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ASEAN.
It said China will continue to promote selected areas of partnership with Russia, while avoiding actions as obviously providing material or lighthal military assistance to Russia that can induce reputation or financial costs for Beijing.
