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The US Asks Pakistan To Limit Nuke Programme, Pak Says Tell India First
US Secretary of State John Kerry with Pak PM Nawaz Sharif in Washington (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
A day after US Secretary of State John Kerry asked visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to limit his country’s nuclear programme, Pakistan’s envoy to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, rejected the demand. Instead, she said that India should be asked to limit its nuclear programme, thus hinting that India’s nuclear programme poses a threat to Pakistan.
What Lodhi very conveniently ignored is that India is committed to its ‘no first use’ policy enunciated in 2003. Thus, India’s nuclear arsenal poses no threat to Pakistan unless the latter launches a nuclear strike on India. What Lodhi, and all those who ask India to cap its nuclear programme, also forget is that India has never initiated any military action against any country.
So the US and other countries ought to not only ask Pakistan to limit its nuclear programme but dismantle it. Pakistan’s nuclear programme is a threat to the free world, not just India.
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