Cannot afford to match India militarily: Pak Defence Minister

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Cannot afford to match India militarily: Pak Defence Minister

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Pakistan cannot afford to match the induction of modern weaponry by India, which possibly has a greater capacity to sustain a war, Pakistani Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said.

“If we only try to match them (India) militarily and buy the sort of armament which they have, we will probably not be able to afford it,” Mr. Mukhtar said.

Explaining his contention, he noted that India’s economy is “six to seven times bigger than” Pakistan’s and its trade volumes were “five to six times greater.”

“The capacity of India and Pakistan to fight was for 20 to 22 days. Now India has inducted a lot of armaments, may be they can last for 45 days, we will not be able to do so,” Mr. Mukhtar said in an interview to BBC Urdu.

He was responding to a question on whether the projection of India as Pakistan’s greatest enemy was the root of the country’s problems.

Mr. Mukhtar noted that the two countries were taking steps to improve relations in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

“Slowly the process of meetings has started. People are going across the border. Nobody had ever thought they could walk suitcase in hand to Amritsar via Wagah but that is the reality now and it is happening,” he said.

This was happening, he said, “in spite of the fact that wars were fought, there were problems on the border and the Mumbai incident”.

Asked why an incident like the Mumbai attacks occurred whenever relations improved between the two countries, Mr. Mukhtar said: “It is very unfortunate that such incidents happen and they should not happen. But there are players who are behind these incidents.”

He did not give details about such elements but said some of them had been arrested and put on trial.

Matters would improve when “we decide that religion and politics should not be mixed together”, he said. “Let them go side by side. There should be no restrictions on religion which is between me and my God.”

Earlier this year, India and Pakistan revived their dialogue process, which was suspended for over two years in the wake of the Mumbai attacks which were carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

Pakistan<India<China.

similar statement was made by our naval chief on India China defence capabilities.

 

[Black Widow]

Pakistan<India<China.

similar statement was made by our naval chief on India China defence capabilities.

Thats where comes minimum deterrence into picture...

 

[S-A-B-E-R->]

nothing new mr minister any body with half the brain knows ur govt ate all the money

 

[Rafi]

Our strategy has never been to match india weapon for weapon, our strategy has always been deterrence - and if you see - we have always been able to do it, JF17, the new subs will increase our defense capability.

 

[Icarus]

True, India does have superiority in manpower and by 2020 will have a decisive technological advantage over us. At our present economic state, it is difficult for us to maintain an advantage numerically/technologically over India, which is why we have force multipliers. P-3Cs in the Navy, AWACs in the Air-force, nuke capable missiles ranging from 300 to 3000km as deterrents.
We thought in the 70s, what the minister just discovered..................

 

[Ahmad Abdullah Ravian]

Pakistan<India<China.

similar statement was made by our naval chief on India China defence capabilities.

(Pakistan + China) > India

 

[Markus]

(Pakistan + China) > India

Or alternately,

China > India > Pakistan

 

[S.M.R]

There are no doubts that we cannot afford to match indian military. Well quality always dominate quantity.

 

[mirage 5000]

say yes to peace and with minimum deterrence .live in peace and let others live in peace .no arm race over poor public .thats it .

 

[Ajaxpaul]

There are no doubts that we cannot afford to match indian military. Well quality always dominate quantity.

Well in 30 to 40 days War..Quantity itself is Quality.

 

[Avatar]

(Pakistan + China) > India

How about (Pakistan+China) < (India+Nato)

 

[DarK-LorD]

Nothing Surprising.

 

[Leader]

Well in 30 to 40 days War..Quantity itself is Quality.

if there is anything left over a week !!

 

[Last Hope]

Cut the crap. This isin't some calculus or Physics lecture.

India has got greater manpower, whereas Pakistan is considering to break their backbone or base.
Wont say more, but Pakistan is working on a huge project eating most of the budget of Pakistan which has been classified.

Working on 8-20 Nukes/Annum and more local made equipment.
We are gearing up, not for a war or taking over India, but for self defence (which is assured).

I recently met an ISI officer who hinted me some of the projects, but not the thing as whole.
Believe me, when Pakistan is gonna emerge out to the world, it gonna be HUGE and people wont believe what Pakistan did within these few years. (as a lot of things isint told to public).