pakistan and India conducted nuclear tests in May 1998, but both countries explain the reasons for these explosions separately. It has been claimed by Pakistan that it carried out five explosions on 28 May in response to India's nuclear tests on 11 May 1998. But India says the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) led to the nuclear explosion.
Mushahid Hussain Syed, who held the position of Minister of Information in the second term of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has said that after India's nuclear explosions, that time of difficulty and challenge came in the form of a positive opportunity for Pakistan. was
According to him, being a Muslim country, no country in the world should have allowed Pakistan to detonate nuclear weapons. If Pakistan had not become a nuclear power on May 28, after the 9/11 attack, America would not have attacked Afghanistan, but Pakistan's nuclear facilities in Kahota.
Mushahid Hussain Syed is currently the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate of Pakistan. Recalling the circumstances and events of May 1998, he told Voice of America in an interview that he went for a walk with the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the end of a conference on economic affairs in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Suddenly the Prime Minister's military secretary delivered a message that "India has detonated nuclear weapons."
According to Mushahid Hussain Syed, after India's nuclear explosions on May 11, the international community feared that Pakistan would definitely carry out nuclear explosions. That's why the western world started putting heavy pressure on Pakistan...
According to him, "Delegations from all over the world, including the United States, started arriving in Pakistan, while American President Bill Clinton made five telephone calls and British Prime Minister Tony Blair contacted him twice."
Nuclear explosion: 'Nawaz Sharif said he was afraid that there would be a mess somewhere'
Mushahid Hussain Syed said that the decision to carry out nuclear explosions was of the civilian government, in which there was no pressure from the establishment. According to him, the Prime Minister called a meeting of the three service chiefs of the armed forces, in which one opposed nuclear blasts, one supported it and one told you to decide for yourself.
Mushahid Hussain did not mention the names of the military leadership who supported, opposed and remained neutral to the nuclear blasts.
According to the former information minister, after meeting the military leadership, the prime minister called a meeting of his team of scientists and told them that Pakistan wanted to respond, to which they said they needed two weeks to prepare.
According to Mushahid Hussain Syed, he advised the Prime Minister that before making nuclear explosions, Pakistan should test the West to see what restrictions they impose on India.
Nawaz Sharif was very angry on LK Advani's statement.
According to him, the G-8 conference held in Birmingham condemned the Indian nuclear explosions to the extent of preservation and no sanctions were mentioned.
According to Mushahid Hussain, in mid-May, Indian Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani made a very strong statement, which, according to him, was "full of brashness and arrogance", warning Pakistan that India was now a nuclear power. It has become a power, so Pakistan should accept India's policy on Kashmir.
Mushahid Hussain Syed further said, "After this statement, Nawaz Sharif was very angry, on which he asked how long we have to wait for the nuclear explosion? I told him that at least the first of June." By Saturday. To which the Prime Minister said that by then it will be too late. Pakistan will have to give an answer in the month of May."
According to him, on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Pakistan in 1999, Mian Nawaz Sharif said the first sentence in a happy mood: "Prime Minister Vajpayee, we are grateful to you that because of you we also They became a nuclear power, on which Prime Minister Atal Bihari also smiled."
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Twenty-three years ago on May 28, Pakistan carried out five explosions in the mountains of Chagai district of Balochistan in response to India's nuclear explosions. After these nuclear explosions, Pakistan became the first country in the Muslim world and the seventh in the world to have nuclear weapons
Regarding nuclear blasts, Mushahid Hussain said that it was very important to respond to India because there was a lot of pressure on Pakistan from inside and outside the country.
According to him, "Pakistan has been secretly working hard for 24 years to make an atomic bomb. And if they didn't bring it out then, when would they bring it out? Secondly, nuclear explosion was also very important for the balance of power." Otherwise, India would have permanently dominated Pakistan."
'India made nuclear explosions because of CTBT'
India says that they did not carry out nuclear explosions keeping Pakistan in mind. Rather, from the very beginning, India had called the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which led to the nuclear explosion, as biased.
According to this treaty, the countries that have conducted nuclear explosion tests before 1968 are recognized as nuclear powers and those that have conducted nuclear tests after that are not nuclear powers.
Speaking to Voice of America, India's Defense and Strategic Expert and former Air Marshal of the Indian Air Force Kapil Kak says that the CTBT (Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty) was behind India's nuclear explosion. was
Under this agreement, in addition to the five countries (US, UK, France, Russia and China), there are extensive sanctions against any other country that conducts a nuclear test.
Former Air Marshal Kapil Kak of the Indian Air Force
Kapil Kak says that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee conducted successful nuclear tests to get rid of CTBT pressure and before detonating, Prime Minister informed US President Bill Clinton in advance through a letter. was
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According to him, America was told that India is threatened by China and can strengthen its defense only through nuclear power.
Recalling the nuclear blasts of May 11, 1998, Kapilcock said that he was then the deputy director of the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, a think tank.
According to him, at the same time, he had expressed these concerns that Pakistan will definitely conduct nuclear tests compared to India; And, he said, it was necessary to do so, because defense and public pressure could not be relieved by anything less.
Kapil Kak further said that India's focus at that time was to withdraw from CTBT and NPT and emerge as a global nuclear power. Because in the eyes of India, NPT was in a sense nuclear apartheid.
'Despite the tip-off, it never reached nuclear weapons'
Although Pakistan and India see the nuclear explosions as a balance of power in the region, experts say that despite becoming a nuclear power, there has been no reduction in tension between the two countries.
A full-scale war broke out between the two countries after the Kargil incident in 1999, just a year after the nuclear blasts. Apart from this, after the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2002, the armies of the two countries also came face to face. Similarly, the Mumbai attacks in 2008 and many other such incidents took place after that, due to which the tension between the two countries continued.
Due to the growing tension between Pakistan and India, this region has always been considered a nuclear flash point at the global level. However, retired Air Marshal Kapilcock calls it Western propaganda and does not consider it a trigger point.
Indian Atomic Energy Commission Chairman R. Chidambaram (left), India's Missile Development Program chief Abdul Kalam (right) at a press conference on May 17 after the May 11, 1998 nuclear explosions.
He says that after the nuclear explosions, although there has been a spat between the two countries, the matter has never reached nuclear weapons, which is a proof of responsibility and restraint on the part of both countries.
Kapilcock said that nuclear weapon is not actually a weapon of war but a weapon of political defense and this is the reason that whatever the situation may be, 'back channel diplomacy' always exists between the two countries.
The war between the two countries has now spread to Afghanistan.
American-based senior journalist Anwar Iqbal, who has been covering the White House, says that not only did the international community begin to increase pressure on Pakistan after India's nuclear blasts, but India also started to increase its pressure on Kashmir. Gilgit-Baltistan and the Hindu-majority areas of Thar bordering Rajasthan in Sindh province had also started claims.While talking to Voice of America, he further said that although the United States imposed some sanctions on Pakistan, but when the United States realized that Pakistan was not going to stop, later Washington made Pakistan a responsible nuclear power country. It was emphasized to happen, so as to stop the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan.
Anwar Iqbal says that although both countries have established themselves as nuclear powers in South Asia. But it did not benefit the people of both the countries. According to him, both the countries have spent billions of dollars on defense strengthening. But little priority was given to development, education and health.
Anwar Iqbal further said that the war between the two countries has now spread to Afghanistan. Neither would like to see the other grow in influence in Afghanistan.
Regarding the future relationship between India and Pakistan, Kapil Kak says that the two countries are drifting apart. According to him, Pakistan's dependence on China has increased a lot while India considers China as a constant threat to itself. So India has gone to the American camp.
According to Kapilcock, he sees the relationship between Pakistan and India as a normal relationship rather than a friendship
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