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Pak will not freeze N-weapons until India does: Musharraf
Islamabad, Sept 24: President Pervez Musharraf said today Pakistan would not freeze its nuclear programme unilaterally under any circumstances until New Delhi froze its nuclear arsenal.
Islamabad, Sept 24: President Pervez Musharraf
said today Pakistan would not freeze its nuclear programme
unilaterally under any circumstances until New Delhi froze its
nuclear arsenal.
"Why isn't the world asking Indians to freeze their
programme... If they freeze we will also freeze,"Musharraf
told a news agency in an interview.
"We have a threat on our eastern border from a country which is about seven times our size. We maintain a strategy of deterrence - conventional and unconventional - to guard ourselves, to ensure that there is a no win situation for our big neighbour", he said. "There will be no war if there is a no win situation (for India) and we want to ensure there is a no win situation through a strategy of deterrence," said Musharraf, who is currently in the united states to attend the UNGA session. "We will maintain that deterrence level in conventional as well as in unconventional weapons," he said.
To a question he said it is necessary to resolve the issue of Palestine and Kashmir to remove the prevailing anti-west and anti-US feelings among the Muslims all across the world.
Bureau Report
"We have a threat on our eastern border from a country which is about seven times our size. We maintain a strategy of deterrence - conventional and unconventional - to guard ourselves, to ensure that there is a no win situation for our big neighbour", he said. "There will be no war if there is a no win situation (for India) and we want to ensure there is a no win situation through a strategy of deterrence," said Musharraf, who is currently in the united states to attend the UNGA session. "We will maintain that deterrence level in conventional as well as in unconventional weapons," he said.
To a question he said it is necessary to resolve the issue of Palestine and Kashmir to remove the prevailing anti-west and anti-US feelings among the Muslims all across the world.
Bureau Report