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Summary Abdul Qadeer Khan has said that Pakistan and India cannot afford to go into the war.
In an interview to a US magazine, Dr Khan said that nuclear weapons had prevented war with India. He said that India was pursuing a “massive programme” solely for the purpose of serving its ambitions of attaining a superpower status.Accusing western powers of orchestrating a false propaganda aimed against Pakistan’s nuclear programme, Dr Khan said: “I would like to make it clear that it was an Indian nuclear explosion in May 1974 that prompted our nuclear programme, motivating me to return to Pakistan to help create a credible nuclear deterrent and save my country from Indian nuclear blackmail.”The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic. India, he said, would need just five nuclear devices to wreak havoc upon Pakistan, and Islamabad would need only 10 to “return the favour”.
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