Enmity, prejudice or shear intolerance of a state towards the neighbour is the actual face of Indian foreign policy. Just recently when the parliament of European Union agreed to give trade concessions to Pakistan the big brother cried loudly, WTO. Enmity run even deeper, India is forcing Afghanistan to raise the issue of water with Pakistan, on the Kabul River. Nuclear bogey is further raised by highlighting the proliferation routes; incidentally Indian thorium is the radio active material which has mysteriously disappeared many a times.
The Indian nuclear scientists also either disappear or are found dead under even more mysterious conditions. Indian analyst are busy telling the world that Pakistan is trying to produce a large number of nuclear weapons to drive fears amongst the world and to capitalise on it by dispersing them at un known locations, giving message to the world that instable Pakistan is even much dangerous than the mere nuclear Pakistan.
Pakistan is also being put in the light as if it is using its nuclear arsenal as a bargaining chip. These unfounded assertions by Indians is not a vent out rhetoric , these are well thought out projections to give a clear message to USA that do not get swayed about Pakistan’s nuclear criticality ,keep upping the ante and squeeze Pakistan to the wall, even beyond.
Pakistan is not following any type of NWET (nuclear weapon enabled terror) policy. The track record is vindictive evidence that the Pakistani state has always displayed an extreme sense of responsibility. On Siachen issue India is no more sincere, it now desires to make Pakistan’s fragile economy feel the heat and crumble under its own weight, as the USSR did.
At doctrinal level India is redefining its military strategy , the famous Cold Start is actually a doctrine of NOT (normal operating temperature), how ,as the growth rate of Indian economy is sustained at 8 percent the cold start is announced and propagated to induce the resources of poor Pakistan. It is not only the NASR (nuclear capable tactical missile) which is the answer to this doctrinal evaluation, rather it is enhancing of Pakistan’s Air force capability to intercept, one point which the strategist are missing here.
The tremendous increase of strategic air lift capability of Indian air force, trying to acquire 45 C-17 Transport aircrafts besides having scores of other and launching of 4000 crores IRTA (Indian regional transport aero plane) project is the actual manifestation and the real components of the cold start policy. Are we missing the point?
ABID LATIF SINDHU
Bahawalpur