<This is so foolhardy, Pakistan should be disarmed --->India says Pakistan plans missile tests May 25-28...
Pakistan may just have decided to remind you of your size and stature may be what to expect next, most unfortunate..anyway it was your democratic Parliament who wanted more missiles in our region now have some, why are you so upset ...Imagine great India engaging with little minor smaller than UP Pakistan, the ambitions to match China are all in clouds..may I remind you of the following...
Indian Parliament Pushes for New Missile Tests
Disarmament Diplomacy -- Issue No 28
On 8 July, the Indian Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence published a report strongly advocating the urgent and comprehensive continuation of India's missile development programme, the centrepiece of which is the medium-range Agni ballistic missile (range 1,500 miles/2,500 kilometres). The 43 members of the Committee concluded unanimously that:
"[T]he Government should go ahead full steam in a time-bound manner to develop a full range of missiles, in addition to the variants of the Agni currently under development, as a deterrent to potential enemies from using their ballistic missile capabilities against any of our assets..."
The main 'potential enemy' the Committee had in mind was China: "China has...developed a large number of missile systems which can target any part of our country [and] against which we have no credible missile deterrent..."
On 16 June, the Asian Age newspaper reported that the Ministry of Defence was planning a test-flight of Agni in August. If carried out, it would be the first test since February 1994 - an interval due not to technical problems but political pressure, particularly from the United States, to abandon or at least suspend the development programme.
Don't forget this too..and stop pontification, you are dealing with fire here and stop thinking that others are going to take all this lying low..
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