Pakistan's 'Nuclear Bluff Exposed', Indian Minister Warns

[Pied Piper]

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Pakistan's 'Nuclear Bluff Exposed', Indian Minister Warns

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201903101073100538-pakistan-nuclear-bluff-exposed-india/
13:17 10.03.2019(updated 13:19 10.03.2019)
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The statement comes weeks after India accused Pakistan of harbouring terrorists and having a “direct hand” in the deadly suicide bomb attack on the Indian paramilitary police force in Kashmir in mid-February. Islamabad, for its part, has vehemently denied the allegations and arrested over 40 terrorists earlier this week.

New Delhi has “exposed” Pakistan’s “nuclear bluff” by carrying out an air raid on an alleged Jaish-e Mohammad terror camp at Balakot in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 26 February, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday.

“India fought and won conventional wars against Pakistan in 1965, 1971 and during the Kargil conflict. Since then, Pakistan’s army has realised that because of our huge economy and superior military strength, conventional wars cannot be won. Since both countries are armed with nuclear weapons, the nuclear bluff was their second option. But it has been exposed this time”, he said on an Indian TV station, as cited by the Hindustan Times.

The finance minister went on to accuse Pakistan of sending terrorists to attack India, and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approach towards Islamabad has brought a change to the country’s policy:

“Till now, Pakistan’s policy was to send terrorists to carry out attacks, while our policy was to be defensive. Modi brought a small change in that. While we will continue to defend, we will also attack the main source of terrorism. The 2016 surgical strike was our first step, and the latest air strikes were the second”, he added.

Earlier this week, Pakistan arrested at least 44 members of Jaish-e Mohammad, including Mufti Abdul Raoof, the brother of the terror group’s leader.


On 26 February, India’s Air Force carried out an air raid on the alleged base of the Pakistan-based terrorist group, Jaish-e Mohammad, at Balakot, reportedly destroying a number of facilities. New Delhi’s assault was conducted in response to a suicide bomb attack claimed by Jaish-e Mohammad on a convoy with Indian security forces on 14 February that killed over 40 soldiers.

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While New Delhi claims that the air raid on Balakot was targeted against Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, which claimed responsibility for the 14 February deadly suicide attack on Indian paramilitary forces, Islamabad has strongly denied the allegations.


Pakistan contended that the Indian aircraft dropped their bombs in a wooded area, causing no damage or casualties, and that it was a pure act of aggression by the IAF which was promptly responded to by the Pakistan military.

Pakistani top civilian and military leaders also rejected India's claims that it had hit a "terrorist camp" inside Pakistan, warning that it would retaliate “at the time and place of its choosing” to Indian aggression.

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Pakistan's National Security Committee (NSC), comprising high-ranking officials including Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, said Khan would "engage with global leadership to expose irresponsible Indian policy".

 

[maximuswarrior]

LOL Indian dog is having constipation after we shot down his fighters and captured his pilots.

 

[Yaseen1]

it is not bluff if india tries further attacks we will definitely carry out massive nuclear attack on every city of india and india which is unable to stop our jets from entering their airspace have no ability to stop nuclear missiles which are much faster than jets and harder to intercept than fighter jets

 

[Mugen]

It's not a bluff, India just failed to push Pakistan enough. If anything we called India's bluff of being a "superpower" and counter attacked conventionally which seems to have sufficed...for now.

 

[SMC]

So according to these people, Pakistan should have nuked India because India dropped payload on forests that killed trees and a bird?

 

[Pied Piper]

On the contrary... I think it confirms nuclear deterrence. India initiated the first attack but was shocked and dismayed when Pakistan stuck back in broad daylight.

The indians were claiming that the targets struck in IOK were military and hence said the was an 'act of war' ......

Well if it was ...what did india do?... Nothing.... Hence pakistan showed that nuclear deterrence worked!

 

[hussain0216]

I dont understand why indians are stupid

Pakistan has red lines that if crossed Pakistan will go nuclear

If those red lines are not crossed then Pakistan will deal with our enemies in a number of conventional ways


Hitting open fields or trees or losing fighter jets in Pakistan dosent cross our 'nuclear' red lines
These things are dealt with conventionally
Like bring down indian fighter jets or hitting multiple indian targets in air strikes

In fact there has to be ALOT of escalation before we go down the nuclear route



Why is this so hard to understand for dum indians ?

 

[M.Bison]

Hey remember history class when at the end of WWII lessons the teacher used to say thank god hitler did not get the nuclear bomb? Well I think someone worse than hitler got the nuclear bomb and his public is even dumber than the germans at that time.
These people are nut jobs man. They have no value for human lives and invite nuclear war. They barely have toilets and they are speaking of nuclear war like its a picnic. I bet you this retard is the first one to run to the west if there is a war.

 

[Riz]

Why pak need to go nuclear when we are superior then you in conventional war????

 

[Pied Piper]

Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war
28.02.2019

India and Pakistan are currently embroiled in their most serious crisis in several decades. While a nuclear exchange between the two sides is highly unlikely, the possibility nevertheless remains, says Michael Kugelman.
Michael Kugelman
For years, it's been a bedrock principle of international security: Possessing nuclear weapons deters nations from using them in warfare. Indeed, since 1945, no country has used one. However, there's an important caveat to this: Nuclear weapons may forestall nuclear exchanges, but they don't deter nuclear states from using military force against each other.

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This means that the potential for escalation to nuclear conflict, while remote, is still quite real. There's no better illustration of this than the India-Pakistan relationship, which is currently embroiled in its most serious crisis in several decades. India and Pakistan fought three major wars before they became nuclear weapons states. But since they achieved formal nuclear status in 1999, they have continued to use limited military force.

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They frequently engage in cross-border firing along their disputed frontier, known as the Line of Control. In the 2000s, India staged several limited cross-border raids. In 2016, New Delhi executed what it described as a "surgical strike" — an operation that hit Pakistani terrorist launch pads along the border.

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Kugelman: 'When it comes to India and Pakistan, there is plenty of space to operate under the nuclear umbrella. But that space is not unlimited'
Audacious use of force
And then came India's move earlier this week. After a Pakistan-based terror group with deep links to the country's security establishment carried out an attack in India-administered Kashmir that killed more than 40 Indian security personnel, New Delhi retaliated with arguably its most audacious use of force in Pakistan since a brutal war back in 1971.

Indian aircraft, according to New Delhi's official statements, flew over the airspace of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, crossed into the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and carried out air strikes on Pakistani terrorist targets. Not since the US raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound — admittedly, a much more sophisticated and riskier operation than the one staged by India this week — has such a dramatic military incursion been made on to Pakistani soil.

Read more: Nuclear fears abound after India-Pakistan military escalation

New Delhi described this operation not as defensive, but as preemptive — an effort to disrupt fresh plans for terrorist attacks on India. The implication is that India has declared its willingness to use force in Pakistan — and well into Pakistan, not just along the border — to eliminate imminent terrorist threats. This suggests the potential for more military force in the future.

It's also a reflection of India's "Cold Start" doctrine, which essentially institutionalizes the strategy of using limited military force, all below the nuclear threshold, against Pakistan. Islamabad, undeterred, carried out its own retaliatory strike after India's. It hit Indian military targets in India-administered Kashmir. Clearly, when it comes to India and Pakistan, there is plenty of space to operate under the nuclear umbrella. But that space is not unlimited.

A sobering lesson
It's not just all these escalations below the nuclear threshold that put India and Pakistan at risk of a possible nuclear exchange. Consider that Pakistan is producing tactical nuclear weapons at one of the highest rates in the world, and that Islamabad has never declared a no-first-use policy — which means, hypothetically, that any conventional use of force by India could be met with a Pakistani nuclear response.

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The intention here is not to make alarmist predictions. A nuclear exchange remains highly unlikely. In the current crisis, escalation would need to go up quite a few more rungs. And at any rate, if tensions really spiral out of control, the international community — led by Washington, but also by institutions like the United Nations — would intervene to defuse tensions. Still, the possibility remains. And recent history offers a sobering lesson.









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Back in 1999, around the time India and Pakistan formally became nuclear states, Pakistan-backed forces crossed into India-administered Kashmir. India attempted to repel them with airstrikes. The conflict, which began in May, stretched into July. Early that month, according to a disclosure made in 2015 by Bruce Reidel, a former US intelligence analyst, the CIA concluded that Pakistan was planning to deploy — and possibly use — nuclear weapons. "The intelligence," according to Reidel, "was very compelling." Soon thereafter, the Bill Clinton administration helped defuse the conflict, known as the Kargil crisis.

If Reidel's account is accurate, then the Kargil crisis may have marked the closest the world has come to nuclear war since the end of World War II.

Unfortunately, one can't rule out another Kargil-like moment for India and Pakistan sometime down the road.

Michael Kugelman is the Asia Program deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.








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DW NEWS | 26.02.2019
Pakistan has limited means to respond to India bombing

 

[hussain0216]

DW NEWS | 26.02.2019
Pakistan has limited means to respond to India bombing

I love this headline from 26.02.2019

Becaaaaaaauuuuuseeeeee

 

[maximuswarrior]

These Indian morons though that Pakistan couldn’t rely conventionally.

In the Indian mind there is only one way Pakistan would counter and that is through nuclear attack LOL Stupid morons.

I love this headline from 26.02.2019

Becaaaaaaauuuuuseeeeee

Limited response LOL They must be eating their words now.

 

[thunderr]

jaitley is high on cow urine -teray hindustan ki ma k bosra , this time it was abhinandan next time it will be you and modi

 

[Mentee]

Hazraat hazraat regardless of what this Indian minster says.

Agr ab koi bharti vimaan Pakistani vayomandal m aya to intnay bmb maray gy itnay bmb maray gy k saaray sanghi daysh m dhoaa'n ho Jay ga

Moreover vaha k nayta shrii shrri narendara modi g sy nagin dance krvy gy


Slaa'n leekum

@Tps43 Chl bay

 

[M.Bison]

I love this headline from 26.02.2019

Becaaaaaaauuuuuseeeeee

I hope they keep thinking like that.