http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Opinions/Columns/28-Jun-2009/Nuclear-Pakistan-inevitable-necessity/1
> The foremost necessity for Pakistan is its security and independence as a > sovereign state. If the very existence of the country is threatened by a > powerful hostile neighbour like India then what good is its accumulated > wealth. The author himself has tacitly agreed to the deterrent value of the > bomb when he said: "Surely, neither side would like to see Delhi and Lahore > reduced to rubble and millions killed or crippled for generations." With > this admission there is no need of any further arguments and the case is > closed in favour of Pakistan to be nuclear as an essential necessity and > imperative to keep off aggressive India. These gentlemen who advocate no > nuclear arsenal for Pakistan are oblivious of the facts of history of the > subcontinent where the majority community, which is now Hindustan, spared > no attempt to physically obliterate the minority community (Muslim) and > even openly threatened to "throw them into the Indian Ocean." It remained > only empty rhetoric. India cannot change its attitude about Pakistan, it > had never reconciled with the division of the subcontinent and ever since > has been trying to undo the division, and partially succeeded in 1971 by > severing Pakistan's eastern wing. Five explosions in 1998 by Pakistan > changed the situation and forced India to change its tactics. Now it > depends on insurgency in FATA, Waziristan and Balochistan and diversion of > water of rivers like Chenab against the International Water Treaty. But > dare no more use of its armed forces on battle fields. The bomb has done > its job. God bless nuclear Pakistan. shiv
