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To: 4figureau who wrote (2972)	1/27/2003 12:34:21 PM
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"India Warns Pakistan That It Will Be "erased From World Map" if It Uses Nukes Against India By Beth Duff-Brown Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 27, 2003 NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India's defense minister warned that Pakistan will be "erased from the world map" if it uses nuclear weapons against India, as the two sides exchanged mortar fire along their frontier Monday. Pakistan responded by calling the comments by Defense Minister George Fernandes "typical Indian irresponsibility." Indian and Pakistani troops traded mortar fire in Punch, a border district 145 miles northwest of Jammu, the winter capital of India's troubled Jammu-Kashmir state. An Indian army spokesman said shelling from the Pakistani side began Monday and in retaliation after Indian soldiers destroyed a Pakistani post. No casualties were reported, the spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity. A spokesman for Pakistan's army said Pakistani troops returned fire after India shelled civilians. The spokesman said five Indian soldiers were killed. Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corp. Sunday night, Fernandes took a swipe at Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for his country's refusal to adopt a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons. Pakistan, like the United States and other countries with nuclear weapons, has never promised not to strike first. India says it only would use nuclear weapons defensively. "If Pakistan has decided that it wants to get itself destroyed and erased from the world map, then it may take this step of madness," Fernandes told BBC World's Hindi radio service..."