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Pak, US uneasy over Nuclear, missile developments in South Asia

Islamabad, May 18 (UNI) Expressing concern over the ‘nuclear and missile developments’ in South Asia, Pakistan and the United States today requested for resolving for lasting peace in the region, issues between New Delhi and Islamabad through a meaningful dialogue. A joint statement issued at the end of the eighth round of the Pakistan-US Security, Strategic Stability, and Non Pro­liferation Working Group said, “Both sides recognised their interest in strategic stability and discussed their respective concerns over nuclear and missile developments in South Asia”. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller co-chaired the meeting of the Working Group that is a component of bilateral Strategic dialogue, Pakistan daily Dawn reported. Induction of four regiments of BrahMos cruise missiles, and testing of nuclear-capable K-4 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles and supersonic interceptor missile by India had led to concerns that strategic balance in the region would be disturbed and could set off an arms race. Indian moves to upgrade its military hardware and procure newer systems are further believed to be disturbing the conventional balance, the newspaper reported. Pakistan has also been expressing concern over the Indo-US nuclear deal that has freed its indigenous fissile material stocks for its weapons programme as manifested by its expanding programme. The statement noted that Pakistan, in this regard, “expressed concerns on the growing conventional imbalance and reiterated its longstanding proposal for Strategic Restraint Regime (SRR) in South Asia and its readiness to pursue measures in the region aimed at building confidence and avoidance of arms race”. As per experts, in the absence of such overarching strategic stability, architecture regional stability, has been tenuous. UNI XC SB SS
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