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Pakistan's Initaitive to take the kashmir dispute to UN security Council and India's defence minister's hint that his country may chnage the no first use of nuclear weapons policy if the situation so required should make it clear to the global community a world of diffrence in the mindset of the two neighbours of the subcontinent.
      Islamabad has established once again that it wants to resolve the seven-decade dispute in the light of the world body's resolutions. There can't be a better approach. The UN had passed the resolutions and it should come out with a startegy to implement them.

     But Indian defence minister threat not to rule out the possibility of the first use of nuclear weapons in a changed situation only exposes his country's mental morbidity. It is only an attempt to bring Pakistan under pressure to give up its principled stand on the Kashmir dispute under the fear of the nuclear threat.
   He is forgetting that Pakistan had remained understand even when India had carried out its first nuclear test ( Pokhran-1) on May 18, 1974, which was the time when Pakistan was going through the agony of the dismemberment of what was the world's largest Islamic State. Islamabad knew very well the enemy's designs and the meannes to which it could stoop to establish its superiority.
   That was the time whan Pakistan  had started preparing itself to meet any challenge thrown by its eastern neighbours. Successive governments played their role in making Pakistan a nuclear power.
   And it was in 1998 when the India carried out five nuclear tests a development aimed to establish the country's psychological superiority over its regional neigbhours in particular and other countries in general. It thought that the nuclear capability would make its neigbhour ls fall in the line and behave.
 But this was a gross miscalculation. That was an opportunity Pakistan was waiting for to show its capability in this feild. Islamabad carried out half a dozen nuclear tests against five by India. Since then New Dehli had bahaving.
  Indian defence minister's latest threatbis not unexpected for Pakistan. A country that has nuclear weapons can also use them againstnits enemy and Pakistan is the biggest enemy.
   But India must bear in mind what would be the situation in case Pakistan used them first leaving none in New Dehli  to retaliate.
  By Sharjeel Babar