Building Strong Military Relations Between the Two South Asian Giants A recent Congressional Research Service report in the United States about Pakistan's nuclear weapons assured Washington and the world that Pakistan has made "qualitative and quantitative" amelioration in its nuclear arsenal. The measure has been positively seen as Pakistan's attempt to bring international confidence in its n-weapons' security. Pakistan is believed to have around 90-110 nuclear warheads, but there is no definitive count of that number. Although there is no designated nuclear doctrine of Pakistan, but it has constantly emphasized upon its intention of minimum credible deterrent policy to keep in check India's military advances toward it. Thus, Pakistan's nuclear warheads will only be put to use if there is any fomentation from its eastern side. However, other than impelled by India, Pakistan has given itself flexibility to use its nukes in other untoward circumstances too. With an ongoing War on Terror on its borders and within its territory, Pakistan has taken additional security measures to meet the high risks. Pakistan's nuclear scientist, AQ Khan was charged with operating a network of nuclear proliferation in 2004, after which Pakistan increased its nuclear security by strengthening export control laws, improved personnel security, and also joined other international nuclear security cooperation programmes. The only threatening scenario in which Pakistan's nukes could get leaked into wrong hands would be under a drastic political change caused by radical groups. The arms race that continues between both India and Pakistan has made South Asia a