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in: “One Last Chance” for Pakistan
in: U.S.-Pakistan Relations and the Big Stick
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Instead of all this Pakistan must now improve its relations with Russia and with Chinese. We now needs to stop now for Do More concept but rather must move on in making our new avenues as this US-PAk relation is no more a beneficial for Pakistan.
in: No Peace and No War in South Asia?
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India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers in the region, keep alert to each other’s nuclear capabilities. India’s application for NSG membership and its potential consequences will inevitably touch a raw nerve in Pakistan, its traditional rival in the region. As Pakistan is not willing to see an enlarging gap in nuclear power with India, a nuclear race is a likely outcome. This will not only paralyze regional security, but also jeopardize China’s national interests.
in: A Time Out for New NSG Membership
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NSG debate was all to accomplish the hegemonic design of India that needs to be undone in order to halt the intangible arm race as well as security culture in the region. It is necessary for India to more focus on domestic challenges including population influx, extreme poverty, separatist movements and economy. This will automatically lead to the stability in the region.
in: Bombs, Bans, and Norms
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Kellogg-Briand Pact did little to prevent World War II or any of the conflicts that followed. Its legacy remains as a statement of the idealism expressed by advocates for peace in the interwar period.
in: Pakistan's Choice
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Michael everyone is entitled to his or her views and your commitment to non-proliferation though far above Pakistan’s ‘sins’ is well known but deliberate use of expressions such as “Rawalpindi’s Nuclear programs” is mischievous to say the least and totally unfair. Does US have any face to lecture other countries on ‘CTBT’?
in: The Waiting Game on the Subcontinent
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Will anybody try to focus on Kashmir issue or everyone will just focus how to malign Pakistans role internationally? the terrorism India is doing with Kashmiri peoples are more severe than what these mere propaganda can do .
in: Not Just Yet for No First Use
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The debate on nuclear First Use (FU) and No First Use (NFU) is as old as the Bomb itself. It formally started when the United States adopted the policy of FU from the onset of the Cold War, especially in the early 1950s. First Use policy is adopted by a state to make its deterrence more credible, keeping in mind the prevailing challenges to the national security of a state in the strategic environment as well as one’s relevant superiority or inferiority in this context. The case of Pakistan’s reliance on a FU option is no different. Pakistan’s nuclear program aims at thwarting adversaries’ (mostly India’s) conventional and potential nuclear attacks. Owing to its conventional inferiority in comparison to India, Pakistan’s decision to retain nuclear FU makes its deterrence credible, a dynamic that helps to avoid any adventurism by the aggressor. In this vein, in order to comprehend Pakistan’s rationale of nuclear FU effectively, it is essential to skim through the historical background of the doctrine, and especially the debate between the ‘Gang of Four’ and ‘Four Horsemen.’
in: The Advantage of Being the Weaker, Nuclear-Armed State
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Excellent article, both in terms of content and explanation.
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Pakistan’s refusal to cut down fissile material production is principle-based; it cannot agree to enable discussions on the FMCT, until its fast developing fissile material gap with India, caused by preferential US treatment, is either closed or at least becomes manageable.
in: To Hiroshima
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This is the same President Obama who released a budget proposal for 2017, which includes billions of dollars for controversial modernization programs for each leg of the nuclear triad — land-based, sea-based and aircraft missiles — and cuts to nuclear nonproliferation programs. This is troubling for a number of reasons, never mind the irony that this spending spree comes from the same man who delivered a 2009 speech in Prague pledging “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
Hiroshima was an excuse to implement their policies.
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They live side-by-side. They started off their journey together. They share history and in some instances much the same culture. They know it and the world knows all the good that they can do so simply by standing together.
Still, it appears that India would much rather fight and end up killing scores of civilians rather than join hands in progress.Once a wise man said ”I know what is right and what is wrong. I also know what I have to do and what I have to avoid. But I am not always able to choose the right path.” Probably we humans are all like that.