New Delhi, March 12 -- Former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal on Thursday highlighted a "huge vacuum in global leadership" amid the West Asia crisis, emphasising the need for leaders to advocate for peace.

Speaking with ANI, he noted that the international community currently lacks respected voices capable of exerting the moral and critical pressure necessary to move toward peace, stressing that countries like India, with moral authority, should push for a ceasefire and dialogue.

Sibal recalled a period during the tenure of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, when leaders across continents successfully collaborated on major global initiatives, such as the proposal for global nuclear disarmament. He argued that today's "shifting g...