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Pakistan`s A-bomb

2015-03-12
LONDON: Pakistan may be forced to produce nuclear weapons should India `go nuclear without advance notice`, according to a statement by the Foreign Minister, Mr Z. A.

Bhutto, published in the Liberal newspaper `Guardian`. Correspondent Patrick Keatley of the newspaper, who met the Foreign Minister in Karachi recently, quoted Mr Bhutto as saying in reply to his question about possible acquisition of an atom bomb by India: `Then we should have to eat grass and get one, or buy one, of our own.

In the words of Patrick Keatley, `A spectre is haunting Asia today: the spectre of H-bomb.` In this article entitled `Brown Bomb` he says that `this nuclear problem haunts the waking thoughts of Mr Shastri in Delhi and President Ayub Khan in Rawalpindi. It dominated the discussions Pakistan`s leader has been having this past week with Mr Chou En-lai during his state visit to Peking`. He added: `Now that there exists in the phrase evolved by Radio Peking a `brown bomb`, there are risks of race polarisation which in this half of the Twentieth Century are too dangerous to be contemplated.`-Correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Hyderabad], Mr Bhutto said here today [March 11] that the creation of Israel was a violation of human rights, negation of the United Nations Charter and betrayal of the Arab people. He said Pakistan had resolutely opposed the creation of Israel and it has not maintained any contact with her.