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Pakistan
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What does it want?
Position: wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN). Supports a legally binding treaty that prohibits some systems.
Wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN), since 2023-03-06, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
At the Geneva expert group in March 2023, Pakistan called for a new legal instrument with prohibitions and regulations, and that month it tabled its own proposal for a legally binding framework listing what should be banned. It has repeated this in its 2024 and 2025 submissions to the UN Secretary-General, asking for a binding protocol that bans autonomous weapons operating without human control. On this site's scale, that is a treaty with bans.
Pakistan calls for a new legal instrument that contains prohibitions and regulations.
there is a clear case for developing an international legal instrument envisaging prohibitions and regulations on the development, deployment and use of LAWS
Remarks by Pakistan at the CCW GGE on LAWS, 6 March 2023, 2023-03-06 source
Pakistan's own working paper proposes elements of a legally binding framework, opening with prohibitions.
Pakistan proposes the following elements for the development of an international legally binding framework on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
Proposal for an international legal instrument on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), submitted by Pakistan (CCW/GGE.1/2023/WP.3/Rev.1), 2023-03-08 source
Pakistan's 2024 submission wants a new CCW protocol with prohibitions and restrictions.
Such a Protocol will need to clearly spell out prohibitions and restrictions governing LAWS
UNGA Resolution 78/241: Submission by Pakistan, 2024-05-03 source
Explaining its Yes vote on the 2024 resolution, Pakistan restated the goal of a new protocol with prohibitions and regulations.
continue in the GGEs of the CCW with an aim to develop international rules through a new Protocol spelling out prohibitions and regulations
Explanation of vote by Pakistan on draft resolutions L.30, L.71 and L.77, First Committee, 79th session, 2024-11-06 source
In 2025 Pakistan asks for a legally binding CCW protocol that prohibits certain autonomous weapons.
Pakistan advocates concluding negotiations on a legally binding CCW protocol prohibiting LAWS operating without human control or incapable of complying with International Humanitarian Law
UNGA Resolution 79/239: Submission by Pakistan, 2025-04-09 source
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How did it vote?
Yes on all three UN votes on autonomous weapons.
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What has it signed?
Being on a list is a fact. Not being on one is not opposition.
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When has it spoken?
Every time it went on the record, dated.
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What rules has it written at home?
Its own military policy.
Military policy not yet reviewed by this site, as of 2026-11-04.
The record
The documents on file.
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