‘Pakistan’s nuke arsenal is a concern’: India
September 2nd, 2009 | 
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NEW DELHI: India’s Army Chief Deepak Kapoor says Pakistan’s growing sophisticated nuclear arsenal is a major cause of concern for India.
His comments referred to reports by the Indian and foreign press based on an academic paper that says Pakistan has 70 to 90 nuclear arsenals.
India’s Army Chief Deepak Kapoor: ‘We are all equally concerned about it. There is a difference between having a degree of deterrence which is required for one’s own protection and going beyond that degree of deterrence. If these news reports of having 70 to 90 atomic bombs are correct, then I think they are going well beyond the so called requirement of deterrence even. That’s something which is of concern to all of us.’
Media reports quote that the paper written for the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists in the US says that the number of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons has gone up to 70-90 from 60 last year.
Recently US accused Pakistan for modifying the Harpoon anti-ship missiles that were sold to them in the 1980s as a defensive weapon.
Pakistan denied the charge and said it developed the missile, the media report said.
The accusation stems from US intelligence agencies’ detection of a suspicious missile test on April 23 which was never announced by the Pakistanis and which appeared to give it a new offensive weapon, the Times said.
The missiles and the growing nuclear weapons would bolster Pakistan’s ability to threaten India, stoking fears of heating up the two nations’ arms race, experts say
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