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| Pak’s nuclear blackmail led India to nuke test: Expert |
| 2003-05-09 |
| This article show why Pakland's offer to denuclearise the area is such a farce and also why China is a bigger threat to India than Pakland India's pre-eminent defence and security expert says it was Pakistan's repeated "nuclear blackmail" that led India to test nuclear weapons in May 1998. Armed with nuclear technology provided by China and missiles provided by North Korea, Pakistan had threatened India three times with nuclear weapons since the mid-eighties, K Subrahmanyam, who was chairman of the National Security Advisory Board in 1998, said on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the tests, which falls on Sunday, May 11. "At that time, the government faced the problem of somehow or other conveying the message to Pakistan that they cannot get away with nuclear blackmail," Subrahmanyam told IANS in an interview. |
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