India's nuclear ambition should not be ignored

[sangsharma]

They Truly are, Agreed

None of our leaders have a $10 million bounty on his head. Osama was not killed in India.

 

[Sugarcane]

When they slapped sanctions on us they slapped them on you too
But when they make nuclear deal with us they slapped you with BIG no

Why you are getting so emotional?? I know that what you are trying to say but my point is it has nothing to do with so called 10,000 years old civilization, It's the matter of common interests.

 

[Guli Danda]

LMAO........... UK has a problem with long range indian nuclear missiles too, for obvious reasons!

Now it's time for China and UK to team up and contain india!

So now you want to team up with others..oready scared with just a single test?

 

[raavan]

I think we should learn how to handle this AID matter from Pakistan ...after all they are talking with a decade of experience behind them....Thanks a lot WindJammer for the concern....this is what friendship is all about...legitimate concern

 

[Bond]

A pakistani discussing about AID is a joke in itself !!!

 

[Sugarcane]

A pakistani discussing about AID is a joke in itself !!!

You didn't read the post, damn.... That's why you don't know the purpose of thread. Ok - Here i am posting again for your convenience

India's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000km has prompted another round of bewildered complaints about why Britain is giving aid to a country with a space programme. The answer to that is simple. We give aid to desperately poor people who need it and India has more poor people in just three of its states than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. But we also give aid for a more realpolitik reason: to buy influence in a country which, with China, is likely to dominate the global economy in the century ahead.

In any case, there is something far more important to worry about than aid. This is not a space programme; it is a race to develop intercontinental nuclear missiles as part of a major modernisation of India's armed forces which is turning the country into the world's top arms importer. A decade of sustained economic growth has allowed India's government to increase military spending by 13 per cent this fiscal year to around US$38bn – about a third of what China spends on its military. This is the real cause for concern.

India has had nuclear weapons since 1974, which is why it has, like Israel and Pakistan, never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which came into force four years earlier. At first it was suggested that India should renounce the bomb and sign as a "non-weapon-state". The United States and others imposed sanctions after India upped its nuclear tests in 1998. But today, India enjoys a de facto legitimacy for its nuclear programme. Washington even signed a civil nuclear co-operation deal with it in 2008. The US State Department greeted this week's new missile by saying India's non-proliferation record was "solid".

The truth is that the new long-range missile, which can reach China, is worrying. Washington is more exercised by North Korea's failed rocket launch, just days earlier, and by its assumptions about Iran's nuclear ambitions. That is because, as Nato pronounced this week, India is not considered a threat. But this degree of proliferation threatens us all.

Beijing responded to yesterday's news by saying that, as large developing nations, China and India "are not competitors but partners". That is spin. The influential newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party made belligerent noises about India's rapidly increased military spending and its "disregard for nuclear and missile control treaties". China's own nuclear arsenal was stronger and more reliable, it said, warning India not to work with Western allies to try to contain China.

Two years ago, China signed a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan, and Pakistani experts are reported to be working on a secret nuclear programme with Saudi Arabia. All this ups the ante in a region where China, Israel and Russia are all nuclear players. The world has rightly worried about the prospect of North Korea developing a nuclear weapons capability, though, as its failed rocket test showed, it has no capability to deliver them. But the real concern should be the rate of acceleration of nuclear capability across the board.

India's new rockets are powered by solid fuel, which makes them quicker to use and easier to transport by road, than the liquid-fuelled missiles in China. They can be fired from mobile launchers, which makes it more difficult for an enemy to locate and destroy them. No wonder increased anxiety is reported inside Pakistan.

There may be excellent reasons for the concern shown about the programmes being developed in North Korea and Iran, regimes which promote intransigence, ideology and confrontation. But intention is not the only danger in a nuclear world. The international community would do well to turn its attention to the fast accelerating availability of nuclear potential elsewhere.

Leading article: India's nuclear ambition should not be ignored - Leading Articles - Opinion - The Independent

PS: This article is not written by Pakistani, unless you label the author as an ISI agent

 

[Tridibans]

LMAO........... UK has a problem with long range indian nuclear missiles too, for obvious reasons!

Now it's time for China and UK to team up and contain india!

At times your posts seem like "binary coded automated" responses.

Some of your all time great posts are like:
1) Great. Now is the time for China and Pak/BD/Sl to join hands and contain UK+India+Western hegemony.

Next thread...
2) Great..........................for China and UK to join hands and contain India+Viet+S.K.......

Next thread...
3) Repeat 1........

Automated for infinite responses.........

 

[Sergi]

Why you are getting so emotional?? I know that what you are trying to say but my point is it has nothing to do with so called 10,000 years old civilization, It's the matter of common interests.

No I am not getting emotional. I was just explaining how USA takes India and Pakistan in current situation. I totally agreed with your point of 10000 year old civilisation ( not exactly 10000)

 

[tvsram1992]

lol NATO will Ignore our program but will keep an eye !!!

 

[nForce]

India's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000km has prompted another round of bewildered complaints about why Britain is giving aid to a country with a space programme. The answer to that is simple. We give aid to desperately poor people who need it and India has more poor people in just three of its states than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. But we also give aid for a more realpolitik reason: to buy influence in a country which, with China, is likely to dominate the global economy in the century ahead.

In any case, there is something far more important to worry about than aid. This is not a space programme; it is a race to develop intercontinental nuclear missiles as part of a major modernisation of India's armed forces which is turning the country into the world's top arms importer. A decade of sustained economic growth has allowed India's government to increase military spending by 13 per cent this fiscal year to around US$38bn – about a third of what China spends on its military. This is the real cause for concern.

India has had nuclear weapons since 1974, which is why it has, like Israel and Pakistan, never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which came into force four years earlier. At first it was suggested that India should renounce the bomb and sign as a "non-weapon-state". The United States and others imposed sanctions after India upped its nuclear tests in 1998. But today, India enjoys a de facto legitimacy for its nuclear programme. Washington even signed a civil nuclear co-operation deal with it in 2008. The US State Department greeted this week's new missile by saying India's non-proliferation record was "solid".

The truth is that the new long-range missile, which can reach China, is worrying. Washington is more exercised by North Korea's failed rocket launch, just days earlier, and by its assumptions about Iran's nuclear ambitions. That is because, as Nato pronounced this week, India is not considered a threat. But this degree of proliferation threatens us all.

Beijing responded to yesterday's news by saying that, as large developing nations, China and India "are not competitors but partners". That is spin. The influential newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party made belligerent noises about India's rapidly increased military spending and its "disregard for nuclear and missile control treaties". China's own nuclear arsenal was stronger and more reliable, it said, warning India not to work with Western allies to try to contain China.

Two years ago, China signed a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan, and Pakistani experts are reported to be working on a secret nuclear programme with Saudi Arabia. All this ups the ante in a region where China, Israel and Russia are all nuclear players. The world has rightly worried about the prospect of North Korea developing a nuclear weapons capability, though, as its failed rocket test showed, it has no capability to deliver them. But the real concern should be the rate of acceleration of nuclear capability across the board.

India's new rockets are powered by solid fuel, which makes them quicker to use and easier to transport by road, than the liquid-fuelled missiles in China. They can be fired from mobile launchers, which makes it more difficult for an enemy to locate and destroy them. No wonder increased anxiety is reported inside Pakistan.

There may be excellent reasons for the concern shown about the programmes being developed in North Korea and Iran, regimes which promote intransigence, ideology and confrontation. But intention is not the only danger in a nuclear world. The international community would do well to turn its attention to the fast accelerating availability of nuclear potential elsewhere.

Leading article: India's nuclear ambition should not be ignored - Leading Articles - Opinion - The Independent

It does not matter what the weapon is..
What matters is who is having that weapon.
India is not a war mongering state,has a stable form of democratically elected government,and a tolerant and friendly foreign policy.That builds a sense of trust across the globe.So, a new ICBM in the arsenal of India is not a big headache for the World.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Not to mention the Sub Saharan comparison. !!

mate try to understand we do not feel ashamed of it . its a problem and we will address it . please remember we are our greatest critics.

 

[Asian.Century]

And then India does this proliferation:

Real Concerns over 'attempted sale of uranium' in India

The development comes after Indian authorities arrested five people who were selling the radioactive material. PHOTO: REUTERS

Real concerns after certain individuals were reportedly arrested in India for their involvement in selling uranium, a highly radioactive material used in nuclear facilities.

“Pakistan is deeply concerned about the reported incident involving the attempted sale of uranium in the black market,” Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal told reporters in Islamabad.

“We are looking forward to the results of further investigations. The report raises several questions about nuclear security and or/interest of criminal groups and individuals in uranium and their motivations,” the spokesperson added.

Pakistan’s reaction came just days after Indian authorities arrested five people from Kolkata who had come there to sell one kilogramme of uranium.

Pakistan to file counter-memorial in Jadhav case on July 17

Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also pointed out that such incidents had happened in the past in India. But the western countries, however, did not consider such incidents seriously.

Meanwhile, the spokesperson strongly denounced Indian forces for what he called their continued oppression in held Kashmir.

The spokesperson said that the recent fact-finding report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) vindicated Pakistan’s stance on Indian Occupied Kashmir.

“The report is a reflection of Pakistan’s repeated calls to the international community to put an end to the brutal use of pellet guns, indiscriminate firing, use of human shield and promulgation of draconian AFPSA and SPA laws that are making lives of Kashmiris in IoK a living hell,” he maintained.

UN report confirms Indian brutality in occupied Kashmir, says FO

“We call upon the international community to take cognisance of the human rights situation as well as the report, and immediately call upon India to stop the bloodshed and give Kashmiris their just right to self-determination through a UN-mandated plebiscite,” he stressed.

On Afghanistan, Faisal said Pakistan had been saying all along that there was no military solution to the conflict.

“Others who were insistent to resolve the issue through military means are also arriving at the same conclusion, which is a good omen for the people of Afghanistan who have suffered immensely from the merciless conflict,” he added.

“We urge all sides including the Taliban to renounce kinetic options and join the peace and reconciliation process to end the brutal conflict in Afghanistan.”