Pakistan, July 21 -- Aseismic shift is underway in South Asia's security architecture, as the Pak-China strategic partnership matures into a formidable alliance with lasting implications for the region's balance of power. This deepening relationship is no longer confined to economic or sporadic military cooperation-it has now become an institutionalised axis of strategic alignment that directly challenges India's traditional regional dominance.

Over the past decade, Islamabad and Beijing have transformed their bilateral ties into a durable framework of mutual defence, shared threat perceptions and synchronised diplomacy. The two nations are constructing a long-term framework aimed at countering Indian unilateralism. This partnership has ...