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Extremely bad analogy - the nuclear fuel provided for civilian use stays in the reactors and has nothing to do with the Indian weapons program, its ballistic missiles or military when used in the form it is intended for --- On the other hand, a Cobra gunship, artillery, F-16 sniper pods or F-16's themselves (assuming they were provided for COIN, which they were not), rifles, ammunition, body armor, NVG's etc. are all issued to regular Pakistan Military units, not a civilian authority like the police (which is the case in your analogy of the nuclear reactor fuel).
Therefore, when these units are deployed elsewhere, the weapons they serve with, helicopters, artillery, rifles etc. all go with those units. Armies do not keep two sets of equipment - one for doing X and a copy of the same stuff for doing Y.
India's own military forces combating insurgents will use the same weapons against insurgents that they will against China and Pakistan.
A better example of your nuclear fuel analogy would be if all this equipment was issued to the Pakistani police, and the military decided to take it over and deploy it at the Eastern front.
Absurd argument really, and I am surprised you guys think it good enough to continue making it.
You are right,
IF the US wants to give weapons to Pakistan, then they have to accept that Pakistan can use it as they want.
They cant expect Pakistan to just use it when the US wants and not use it every other.
Its unreasonable to expect Pakistan not to use US weapons to fight with India.
How ever Pakistan must also use these weapons to fight terrorists.
And not just station them permanently along the border with India
Or at least not the bulk of the weapons. If the want to rotate the troops then that's ok. But they should be used to combat terrorists.
As long as that one condition is maintained then Pakistan is well within its rights ethically and legally to do what it wants with the weapons.