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This should have been the reply from a Pakistani, but strangely some of them are too eager to appease uncle sam and others are shooting blanks.
No...this d**k measuring contest will get us nowhere because I, honestly, find it extremely hard to believe that India would fight Pakistan, even in case of a Mumbai like attack...the international mud slung at us would be enough to cripple our backs. Lets trust the army to come up with a credible deterrence but focus more on the real issues that face us. A day laborer working out on the streets of Lahore can't be arsed with what India is or isn't doing because he has to kill himself at work just to put food on the table....lets concentrate on him. Our sisters and mothers who are killed in the name of honor in backward areas of Pakistan, are a much more pressing concern right now. Our self-styled religious scholars that propagate perverted dogmas and hence poison the minds of our young and old alike, are, in my humble opinion, bleeding us from the inside...so lets root out these vermin first.
Building an ICBM...though maybe testament to our military prowess but it would serve little purpose especially when there are a plethora of other methods to nuke India should they nuke us. As for a deterrence against Uncle Sam, I think going down this path would be the proverbial double edged sword...besides once they (USA) leave Afghanistan they're going to impose another set of hefty sections on Pakistan and squeeze our already small resource pool, I dunno about you..but I'd rather not take North Korea as an example - a formidable missile program but starving people. So first build up some nuisance value like India has (economy) or have some national cohesion (like Iran) and then confront the White Devil with an ICBM...if we must. Right now building an ICBM has a much, much larger opportunity cost than I, as a Pakistani, would be willing to pay.