Pakistan Warns Against Patriot Missile Sale to India

Pakistan has criticized the possible sale of U.S.-made Patriot missile interceptors to India, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Sept. 11, 2003).

“We have heard rumblings and rumors ... that India was contemplating buying these systems from the United States,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said during a press conference this week. 

“This is our stance: That this step would be counterproductive, that this would erode deterrence, that this would send the entire region into a crisis mode, that you will have an arms race — an unintended arms race here, which nobody wants,” he said.

U.S. defense officials were in New Delhi on Monday to make a presentation on the Patriot system to Indian defense and Foreign Ministry officials, AP reported (Matthew Pennington, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Feb. 24).

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