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Good for us, no need to include them in any meaningful multilateral program of substance. Let their stature be reduced just a non-participating honorary member in the SAARC alliance. Multilateral programs are a way to save money, these satellites could have helped predict bad weather, and enhanced the lives of many farmers, fishermen and commoners alike. If Pakis think they are rich enough to have their own space program, then let them have it. Already their nuclear program is putting a strain on their budget management, they are buying more planes and naval equipment, now this space program, everything paid for by mortgaging sovereign territory from Baltistan and Balochistan. In a few years they wont have anything left to sell and collapse like Soviet Union.
Pakistan opts out of SAARC satellite plan
At the SAARC summit in Kathmandu, Modi had announced India’s decision to develop the satellite to benefit all member countries in different fields including telecommunication and telemedicine.
BY: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE | NEW DELHI |PUBLISHED ON:MARCH 23, 2016 4:03 AM
Pakistan has “decided to opt out” of the ambitious SAARC satellite project which was proposed in November 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for all member countries of the regional grouping.
At the SAARC summit in Kathmandu, Modi had announced India’s decision to develop the satellite to benefit all member countries in different fields including telecommunication and telemedicine.
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On Tuesday, MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said: “Pakistan has decided to opt out of the satellite project. So it cannot be called a SAARC satellite. It will be a South Asia satellite.”
Pakistan is learnt to have expressed reservations over the safety of its space programme data. This was conveyed to India during the SAARC meeting in Pokhara this month.
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They can't even get rid of polio and they want Star Wars technology.