*RAWALPINDI – Pakistan doesn’t have a ‘No First Use Policy’, DG ISPR sendsa stern message to Indian Defence Minister over Nukes statement.*
*This comes as a reaction to Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh nuclearuse policy against Pakistan.*
*Pakistan doesn’t have a no first use policy, ISPR chief Major General AsifGhafoor told the media during a briefing on Wednesday. *
This isn’t a state policy and if India wants to change it, the choice istheir’s, he said. But there’s always second use, he said. This was inresponse to Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said recently that thefuture of his country’s no first use policy on nuclear weapons “depends onthe circumstances.”
In a series of tweetslink, Singh saidthat India remains committed to the doctrine of not using nuclear weaponsfirst but “what happens [in the future] depends on the circumstances”.
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You cannot de-link the country’s situation with the overall environment,warned Major General Ghafoor. The world powers have economic interests hereand the location is key, he said, adding that it is a relevant region.
Major General Ghafoor said Pakistan has 200,000 troops along the Afghanborder but plans to reduce as peace enters the region. Slowly we willdecrease the troops and then eventually withdraw them, he said, but thisposes an issue to India. They think that our troop withdrawal will meantrouble for them so they are trying to
Discussing Kashmir, he said the situation was a threat to overall peace inthe region. With this RSS and Nazi ideology, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians andDalits are all suffering. He slammed India’s fascism and said it was athreat to the region. India has tried to stop us from fighting terrorismfor 20 years with provocations and escalations.
