India asks Pakistan to declare its nuclear doctrine, join Fissile Material Cut-off...

NEW DELHI: With Pakistan's nuclear arsenal a matter of growing global concern, India has pressed Pakistan to enunciate its nuclear doctrine and asked it to join global efforts for concluding the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT).

At the expert-level talks in Islamabad earlier this week on nuclear Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), New Delhi politely spurned Pakistan's proposal for bilateral cooperation on nuclear safety and peaceful uses of nuclear energy, saying it will have to wait till there is adequate trust and confidence between the two countries.

The Indian side was led at the talks on nuclear CBMs by Venkatesh Varma, joint secretary (Disarmament) in the external affairs ministry, and the Pakistani delegation was headed by Munawar Saeed Bhatti, Additional Secretary in the Pakistan's Foreign Office.

Reliable sources said India pointed out at the meeting that it was cooperating in the area of nuclear safety at the multilateral level at the International Atomic Energy Agency, the global atomic watchdog, and suggested that New Delhi could cooperate with Islamabad also within the IAEA framework.

Voicing concern over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, New Delhi pressed Islamabad to enunciate its nuclear doctrine, including the command and control structure of its nuclear assets, and said the declaration of the doctrine could be a major CBM.

Against the backdrop of widespread global concern about Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, Indian officials conveyed to their Pakistani counterparts that it was a matter of concern not only for India but for the entire international community that Pakistan was yet to publicly state its nuclear policy.

India, on the contrary, has articulated its nuclear doctrine which includes, among other key principles, credible minimum deterrence and no-first use of nuclear weapons.

India also asked Pakistan to join global efforts to conclude the FMCT at the Conference on Disarmament and underlined that it could be an important step in building trust between the two countries.

Pakistan has consistently refused to participate in the FMCT negotiations. India has backed an early conclusion of negotiations on a non-discriminatory, multilateral and verifiable FMCT.

In an important move, the two sides have agreed to recommend to their foreign secretaries to extend the validity of the agreement on reducing the risk from accidents relating to nuclear weapons for another five years.

The talks on conventional CBMs was led from the Indian side by Y. K. Sinha, joint secretary (Pakistan) in the external affairs ministry. Sources said the talks, held after a gap of four years, were conducted in an extremely cordial and constructive atmosphere with both sides candidly exchanging views on additional CBMs.

At the talks, the Pakistan side proposed relocation of heavy artillery along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB), but the idea did not find favour with India.

New Delhi made it clear that the proposal could be considered only if peace and tranquility was maintained along the border and ceasefire violations and infiltration stopped completely.

Sources said that there has been progress during the second round of the resumed dialogue process with Pakistan.

The home secretaries, water resources secretaries, defence secretaries and other senior officials of the two countries dealing with contentious subjects like Sir Creek and Siachen would be meeting in the coming days before the talks between the foreign secretaries, who will review the issues relating to peace and security and Jammu and Kashmir.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna is expected to visit Islamabad around the middle of the next year to review the progress achieved in the second round of the revived dialogue process.

India asks Pakistan to declare its nuclear doctrine, join Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty - The Economic Times

It's like asking a nymphomaniac to become a nun...

We have a doctrine No first use and India is officially endorsing the FMCT

If they can ask us to withdraw guns, why cant we ask them to at least declare their doctrine?

That is if they have One!

They are too busy upstaging each other to have any idea of the world!

they have no doctrine ,they can use their bomb any time ,i really suspicious that if the paki authority really have the control of their nukes
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I think they don't know what is Nuclear Doctrine....someone please educate them

The pakistani politicos themselves have no idea about their nuclear missiles and from were do you think they will get a doctrine. The only DOCTRINE and AGENDA the pukes have is to how they can infiltrate terrorists into INDIA and turn the INDIAN MUSLIMS against their own country INDIA.

The Pak doctrine is well known. It has projected a low threshold for use of nukes. For it nukes are an instrument to spread terror by stil deter india from retaliating.

Found a link

http://www.ipcs.org/article_details.php?articleNo=2361

Pretty decent assessment.

Indeed very nice assessment, think this is the reason why INDIA did say that NFU depends upon the situation and what that situation demands.

Well, The Pakistanis do have a nuclear doctrine, and that doctrine reads "There is no nuclear doctrine". All they want is indiscriminate, illegitimate first use.

Just asking them to declare the doctrine is not enough. Further it should be said that not declaring it, then india will by default consider the doctrine as aggressive towards our nation and hence india would modify the doctrine accordingly towards pakistan specifically.

It's akin to asking an eunuch to declare it's gender.

There is and will be no chance pak nuclear doctrine... "EAT GRASS AND WAR WITH INDIA"

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