Pakistan:  Islamabad Charges India With Proliferation

Pakistan yesterday accused India of being a missile proliferator and called on other countries to block India’s efforts to develop more advanced ballistic missiles (see GSN, April 7).

“We have stated before that India is the proliferator in this region.  India is the one which is proliferating the missile program,” Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman, Aziz Ahmed Khan said.  “It is better that the international community give attention to it and prevent India from this relentless pursuit of more and more weapons,” he said.

Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said his country would react “appropriately” to a planned test by India of its Agni 3 long-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, indicating that Pakistan would conduct a missile test of its own, The Hindu reported (B. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu, April 9).

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