The second part said that a country won't need expensive armaments of the conventional kind if it goes nuclear. Events have proved this to be complete rubbish. The Pakistani chief or army staff has said this unambiguously as well. Defence spending on conventional arms has risen in both countries since last May, and is still rising. More tanks, aircraft, ships, artillerySSthe sky is the limit.
Xenophobia kills civil society.
It matters little that our rulers, feudals, bureaucrats, and soldiers plunder the country's wealth, flout the laws of the land, and reduce its people to destitution. Our patriotism gives sanction for harassing, beating, and kidnapping political rivals, any one who exposes corruption, and civil rights and human rights activists. It allows for the abduction of Najam Sethi from his bedroom in the middle of the night and charging him as an agent of evil India. In truth, nucleomania destroys civil society. I fear that the worst losers of the nuclear game may well be the people of Kashmir.