Once again Pakistan raising the Kashmir bogey saying issue be resolved according to aspirations of Kashmiris shows how much is the neighbour obsessed with it. In the same breath it wants to have a ‘good relationship’ with India and resolve all issues. This mood swing is nothing but a reflection of its internal unstability and emerging resistance. India has called Pakistan to maintain sanctity of the Line of Control (LoC). Pakistan has always taken the stand that terrorism is something their own concern. It is overflow of terrorism from Afghanistan that becomes the top security concern for it. On the other hand, historically, beyond the rhetoric of diplomatic and moral support, the policy makers in Pakistan have never truly supported the Kashmiri struggle whose foundation goes back to the UN passed regulations at the time of partition which demanded certain policy decisions from Pakistan that Islamabad has never implemented. Pakistan has the fastest growing stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world. Pakistan also ruled out America’ s desire that Pakistan reduce or cap its fast expanding nuclear weapons arsenal and put the onus for it on India. India has the stand of deterrence. The concept of deterrence is a dynamic one. Deterrence has to be effective and Pakistan’s deterrence is India-centric. For Pakistan terrorism is secondary and comes only after nuclear stand viz-a-viz India. The subcontinent remains among the most dangerous corners of the world, and continues to pose a deep threat to global stability and the current world order. Their 1,800-mile border is the only place in the world where two hostile, nuclear-armed states face off every day. And the risk of nuclear conflict has only continued to rise in the past few years, to the point that it is now a very real
possibility.
