Pakistan has warned that it will continue militarisation in land, air and sea to achieve “full spectrum deterrence” against what it said was “geo-strategic competition and the pursuit of military dominance by some states” like India with “hegemonistic designs”.

After Monday's Security Council high-level meeting on maritime security, Pakistan's Permanent Representative Munir Akram sent a written statement to the Indian Mission to be included in the record of the session.

India is the current president of the Council and the meeting was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Akram, the representative of Pakistan, asserted that “India has nuclearised the Indian Ocean and continues to induct advanced weapons systems and naval delivery platforms” with “hegemonistic designs.”

“In light of these developments, Pakistan will continue to take all necessary measures to maintain full spectrum deterrence and ensure its national security on land, in the air and at the sea,” he wrote.

In his address at the meeting, Modi called for resolving maritime disputes peacefully and cited the example in the South Asia region of India and Bangladesh reaching an agreement on their maritime boundary issues.

Moving beyond the ambit of the meeting's agenda of a holistic approach to maritime security, Pakistan’s representative accused India's policies of being “currently driven by an extremist Hindutva ideology” which “pose an immediate and pervasive threat to international and regional peace and security.”

Pakistan has adopted a line of ad hominem attacks on India by attaching “Hindutva” to its statements.

Pakistan was not at the maritime security meeting as the participation was limited to members of the Council, UN officials and African Union President Felix- Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.

But Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who chaired the final segment of the meeting, invited members states to send in written statements.

Pakistan's attack on India in the written statement mirrored similar attacks by its “all-weather” patron China at the meeting when it tore into the United States and Japan, naming them directly, and India indirectly.

Although Akram's claim about “geo-strategic competition and the pursuit of military dominance by some states” in the Indian Ocean echoed Dai's criticism of the US, the Pakistani diplomat did not name the US.