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India Asserting New Might In Warnings To Pakistan
May 21, 1998|By New York Times News Service.
— India's prime minister Wednesday visited the site of the nation's nuclear tests and put Pakistan on notice that it should adopt a more conciliatory attitude that recognizes India's newly enhanced military power.
"We want peaceful coexistence, but the frequent threats to security forced India to conduct the nuclear tests to silence its enemies and show its strength," Atal Behari Vajpayee told soldiers at a camp near Pokharan, the testing range in the northwestern desert where India conducted five underground nuclear tests last week.
The Indian leader's assertive posture came after similar warnings to Pakistan by another top government official, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. On Wednesday, for the second time in 36 hours, Advani issued a blunt warning to Pakistan to ease pressures on India from Pakistani-backed insurgents in the disputed territory of Kashmir, or face what Advani called a "proactive" response. He did not say what that might be.
But the warnings to Pakistan, coupled with the reminders Wednesday that India regards itself as a nuclear power, seemed aimed at shifting the region's strategic balance in India's favor. The nuclear tests appear increasingly to have been motivated at least in part by the assertive Hindu nationalism that guides the Vajpayee government.
May 21, 1998|By New York Times News Service.
— India's prime minister Wednesday visited the site of the nation's nuclear tests and put Pakistan on notice that it should adopt a more conciliatory attitude that recognizes India's newly enhanced military power.
"We want peaceful coexistence, but the frequent threats to security forced India to conduct the nuclear tests to silence its enemies and show its strength," Atal Behari Vajpayee told soldiers at a camp near Pokharan, the testing range in the northwestern desert where India conducted five underground nuclear tests last week.
The Indian leader's assertive posture came after similar warnings to Pakistan by another top government official, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. On Wednesday, for the second time in 36 hours, Advani issued a blunt warning to Pakistan to ease pressures on India from Pakistani-backed insurgents in the disputed territory of Kashmir, or face what Advani called a "proactive" response. He did not say what that might be.
But the warnings to Pakistan, coupled with the reminders Wednesday that India regards itself as a nuclear power, seemed aimed at shifting the region's strategic balance in India's favor. The nuclear tests appear increasingly to have been motivated at least in part by the assertive Hindu nationalism that guides the Vajpayee government.
JD beta pani peo pani please apna BP control main rakho kya faida aysy ghusa kar kebecause India is not acting like Isreal as yet...! Once India gets offensive it will show you your place, then I guess you wont say this .... India's soft approach has made Pak out of nothing!