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Updated: 20 April 2000      

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 For peace or to threaten the neighbors!

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  From "The Rediff Special"

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  Fact Sheet

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For Peace or To Threaten the Neighbors!

What will you do if some one, stronger than you acquire a power which can vanish your identity forever? Especially when he had tried more than once to do so before he had that horrible power? And more specifically when you are being attacked by him and no one around you have courage to stop him?

If your answer is "I should balance the power so that I live securely without any scare"

Any independent-eyed and open-minded person MUST agree this realistic approach.

Keeping the above illustration in mind and visualizing the scenario of Pak-India relationship since 1947, you can realize the need of Pakistan's Nuclear and Missile Program.

To continue this story of TRUTH & PROPAGANDA, go through & see some extracts from "The Rediff Special" and Fact Sheet

From "The Rediff Special"

By Courtesy of CNS.

From Rediff Special's "What story does Ghauri tell us?"

by Gaurav Kampani

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies (425 Van Buren Street, Monterey, CA 93940, USA)

e-mail: cns@miis.edu

web: http://cns.miis.edu

Edited and added by Muhammad Zeeshan Zaki. (zeemil@hotmail.com)

"Potentially, the Ghauri poses an unprecedented threat to India's national security. If deployed with a nuclear warhead, every major Indian population, economic, and military centre would be threatened. Pakistan's attempt to communalise the strategic debate in South Asia by christening its new missile after a Muslim marauder -- Shahabuddin Ghauri[1] -- not only smacks of political insensitivity, but downright vulgarity. But before pointing fingers across the border, we honestly need to confront a few uncomfortable truths.

First, the Ghauri has come as a response to India's larger and more sophisticated Integrated Guided Missile Programme. Pakistan probably received external assistance in the design and development of Ghauri, but India's own missiles have not entirely been fathered from indigenous genetic stock. Lest it be forgotten, the Prithvi [2] uses a larger reverse-engineered version of the SAM 2 engine.

Second, there is no independent evidence to support Defence Minister George Fernandes's claim that China is the "mother of Ghauri." For all we know, the missile may have been developed with help from North Korea."

"For a start, Pakistan has signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The CWC has banned the production, acquisition, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons. If India has any doubts of Pakistan's complicity it can trigger challenge inspections."

 "From a strategic perspective, the Ghauri would make the most sense if it were designed to deliver nuclear payloads. At a minimum, Pakistan would need to conduct one or two nuclear tests to arrive at an optimum size, weight, and yield ratio for its nuclear warheads with confidence."

"...there is no independent evidence to support Defence Minister George Fernandes's claim that China is the "mother of Ghauri." For all we know, the missile may have been developed with help from North Korea."[3]

 

[1] Muhammad Bin Sam Ghori, renowned with Shabuddin Ghouri: One of the Muslim Emperors, Ruler of Ghazni. He is blamed to transfigure the immoral state of rulership in former North Hindustan (Pak-Indian sub continent). Continue

[2] Prithvi Raj Chohan: Last Emperor of former Delhi and Ajmair. He had a fine taste to fight even with his co-religionists neighbors (Rajput Emperors). Pakistan has been tasted such "War-Madness" of Prithivi's Forerunner-India, several times since its freedom. Continue

[3] This quote is reproduced to reveal this fact that Pakistan is urged to continue its Missile Program. If Pakistan (as claimed, but not proved yet) has acquired the "Ghouri Technology" from any other country, he has right to do so because of two basic reasons:

1.     India launched its four Missile Programs simultaneously in 1983. Due to strong inter-relationship and constant technological assistance from other countries India has superiority over Pakistan. Pakistan has no chance other than to keep or try to keep the pace with this trend in order to balance the power in the subcontinent-either by developing its own missiles or by taking assistance from other country or countries.

2.     According to Asian Studies of Heritage Foundation, Washington, India test-fired Pirithvi Missile in Jan-1996 to test its capability to deliver Nuclear-Warhead to the target. After then Pakistan has been pushed to keep continue its Nuclear and Missile Programs.

Fact Sheet

Ghouri Missile Range

An Illustration

Pakistan's Missile Program

A time record

Indian Missile's Ranges

An Illustration

Missiles and Nuclear Program of Pakistan & India

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