It was he who was making you guilty. Do you accuse him of the same crimes that you accused me of!
No actually I was referring to your dramatic rants on the thread, i.e. 'OMG can you believe it? Nuke your own people? What other country threatens to nuke own people, etc'.
If you have nothing to dispute my observations with other than 'I think Ahmed Rashid knows more than you', then I don't see what the problem is. Now stop pretending that this is a fact, just a PoV. One you happen to share in enthusiastically but one you can't defend here. There is no potential for this eventuality in the Sundarji of Cold Start Doctrines. The first one was scrapped because it offered a juicy shot at your strike corps, and the 2nd has been designed to ensure Pakistan is not compelled to use nuclear strikes at all. If conventional war does come to nukes then, we nuke your logistics and Army Commands which would crumble your offensive operations as well as degrade your ability to launch a full nuclear retaliation, instead of nuking ourselves and then sitting around so you can nuke us too.
If this was a threat, it is not much of a threat. I suppose it fits well with Ahmed Rashid’s ‘Pakistan is threatening to destroy itself’ rhetoric so he might have been tempted to refer to some hearsay, but other than that it’s not very logical or practical. Indians might be inclined to believe that Pakistani officers are complete maniacs, but we wouldn’t be here if that were true. I’ve only read some of his work, so if Rashid has mentioned this interesting claim in any of his official pieces then it might be attributed and gives us something to go on in terms of context and credibility. If not, then we can’t take it at face value. Somehow I doubt Rashid would indulge in this sort of talk as part of his official presentations or his official work. Someone has info that proves me wrong then I’d be glad to hear it and will try to understand why exactly this chap thinks Pakistan made nukes to nuke Pakistan.
Though there is something I should mention here, a nuclear exchange in the subcontinent would be a world catastrophe and not just a Pakistan/India one. Nuclear fallout from Pakistani weapons is likely to impact parts of Pakistan just like the side efforts Indian bombs in Pakistan are likely to influence Indians. Our bombs are much more powerful than what the Americans used in Hiroshima/Nagasaki, so maybe this was what Rashid might have been trying to refer to (didn’t do a very accurate job though). But like I said, he is no strategic weapons expert. It maybe a technical misunderstanding/exaggeration on his part, unlike any thesis he might have provided in his works and to world leaders about Kashmir being the primary source of conflict. Now that sort of thing and other political/social tendencies in the civilian domain is much more in line with his insights.
