Frankfurt, Sept. 8 -- Shafi Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), has sharply criticised the global reliance on sanctions and tariffs, describing them as a failure of diplomacy and a growing threat to international peace and security.

In a statement issued in Frankfurt, Burfat said sanctions and tariffs, increasingly used by powerful states to exert pressure, highlight the erosion of humanitarian and principled politics in today's world.

"Traditionally, diplomacy was the cornerstone of international engagement, built on dialogue, negotiation, and compromise. But today, coercion has replaced dialogue," he said.

He argued that sanctions, often justified under the pretext of promoting peace or human rights, inflict dispro...