Ready to Work With India to Prevent Arms Race, Says Pakistan
Pakistan remains ready to discuss arms control and restraint measures with India.
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Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (left) with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz. (Photo: PTI)
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Pakistan is ready to work with India to prevent an arms race in the Asian region, the country’s foreign office said, and stressed that the two countries needed to devote their resources for their people’s upliftment.
Pakistan remains ready to discuss arms control and restraint measures with India. Our proposal for Strategic Restraint Regime (SRR) can provide a basis for mutually agreed restraint measures and avoidance of an unnecessary arms race in the region,
Nafees Zakaria, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson to Dawn Online on Thursday
He was responding to a query relating to US President Barack Obama’s comments at the Nuclear Security Summit last week, in which he asked Pakistan and India to work towards reducing their nuclear arsenal and develop military doctrines so that they do not “continually move in the wrong direction”.
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