Word: pakistani
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...part, Sharif told TIME, "I still feel we can make progress through bilateral negotiations and talks." Pakistani enthusiasm for a nuclear-arms race may quickly wane under the fierce bite of the same U.S. sanctions slapped on India, because Pakistan depends far more on international loans. "They are wrong to say the costs would be manageable," insists Mahbub ul Haq, a former Pakistani Finance Minister...
...exploded its nuclear devices. Clinton Administration officials have secretly begun analyzing scenarios depicting how the two nations might stumble into an atomic exchange. It could go like this: Muslim militants in Kashmir, covertly backed by Islamabad, step up their insurgency in the disputed Himalayan territory, where several Indian and Pakistani soldiers already die each week in cross-border skirmishes. India lashes back, sending its troops across the Pakistani border to chase militants. Islamabad retaliates with heavy artillery shelling. Conventional war breaks out and quickly escalates to the point where both sides resort to their nukes, and 15-kiloton, Hiroshima-size...
...Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded. U.S. intelligence officials suspected there had been fewer. But on Saturday Pakistan conducted one more test at a nearby site to mirror India's back-to-back blasts. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Sharif said...
...international community shuddered at the thought of where this path would end. Bill Clinton was dismayed. In just 17 days the Asian subcontinent had suddenly repeated, as he darkly put it, "the worst mistakes of the 20th century." Now would the Indian and Pakistani explosions, as some optimists suggest, bring a kind of fearful stability to the region? Could the two countries settle back into a state of mutual assured destruction (MAD), like the one that kept the superpowers from nuclear holocaust during the cold...
Washington's fear is that both sides will move into the next stage: threatening each other directly by placing nuclear warheads atop missiles. By week's end, the Pakistani government was denying rumors that its Ghauri missile, whose 930-mile range can reach all major cities in India, was already being capped with nuclear warheads. But both countries could probably deploy nuclear-tipped missiles within months. Since those missiles could reach their targets in 10 minutes or less, "you have a situation where either side, thinking its forces may be under attack, would launch on warning," says a Clinton aide...