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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (15930)	5/30/2002 4:49:06 PM
From: blue_lotus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Pak may Nuke India if economically strangled!! ... Amid frenetic diplomatic moves, Pakistani officials disregarding US advice to forsake rhetoric ratcheted the tensions some more by proclaiming Islamabads low threshold for using nuclear weapons in a conflict with India. Munir Akram, Pakistan's newly appointed envoy to the United Nations, told reporters in New York that as a weaker conventional power, it was within Pakistan's rights to use the nuclear means to deter an Indian attack. An "economic strangulation" of Pakistan could also compel Islamabad to use nuclear weapons, he said. The Pakistani argument before the UN and the world community is that India should not have the license to kill with conventional weapons while Pakistan's hands are tied regarding other means to defend itself." Indian officials responded by saying Pakistan cannot practice terrorism under the cover of nuclear weapons. Islamabad?s position, they argued, was presumptive. The immediate reality is that Pakistan is already waging a proxy war under nuclear cover.... timesofindia.indiatimes.com