For first time, Pakistan admits it’s ready with battlefield nukes - Times of India: "akistan ramped up its nuclear saber-rattling ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying its development and deployment of tactical battle field nuclear weapons (or mini-nukes) was only aimed at deterring any conventional Indian attack through New Delhi's so-called ''Cold Start'' doctrine.
In a bold rationalisation of Pakistan's offensive nuclear posture, the country's foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhury told Pakistani journalists ahead of the Obama-Sharif meeting that India had moved cantonments to the Pakistan border and created a gap in the conventional capabilities of the two countries through its Cold Start doctrine, and that has forced Pakistan to developed short-range nuclear weapons to deter any possible Indian attack.
''Pakistan has built an infrastructure near border areas to launch a quickest response to Indian aggression... usage of such low-yield nuclear weapons would make it difficult for India to launch a war against Pakistan,'' Chaudhury was quoted as saying at a briefing meant only for Pakistani reporters, where the nuclear issue took centerstage."
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In a bold rationalisation of Pakistan's offensive nuclear posture, the country's foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhury told Pakistani journalists ahead of the Obama-Sharif meeting that India had moved cantonments to the Pakistan border and created a gap in the conventional capabilities of the two countries through its Cold Start doctrine, and that has forced Pakistan to developed short-range nuclear weapons to deter any possible Indian attack.
''Pakistan has built an infrastructure near border areas to launch a quickest response to Indian aggression... usage of such low-yield nuclear weapons would make it difficult for India to launch a war against Pakistan,'' Chaudhury was quoted as saying at a briefing meant only for Pakistani reporters, where the nuclear issue took centerstage."
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