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Growing instability marks the evolving security environment between Pakistan andIndia and hence modifies their strategic priorities. The prevailing security dynamicsin the region, such as changing nature of conflicts, introduction of new technologies,evolving deterrent force postures, and suspension of Confidence Building Measures(CBMs), have increased states’ reliance on arms build-up and decreased their inclinationto arms control and disarmament. This paper offers a Pakistani perspective onhow the prevailing regional environment seems less favorable to nuclear disarmamentand more inclined to deterrent force modernization. To explain the aboverationale, this study takes guidance from primary and secondary sources to assessdisarmament challenges, and discusses the prospects for creating a new securityenvironment in the region to promote a renewed consensus on nuclear disarmament.