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...nuke pronouncements but accepts at face value private assurances that his government will not heat up the arms race, at least not before it has completed a lengthy comprehensive review of defense strategy. Pakistan is worried, though, by the aggressively nationalistic tone in New Delhi. On April 6, Islamabad test-fires its first intermediate-range missile, the Ghauri, named for a 12th century Muslim conqueror who defeated the last Hindu King of Delhi, Prithviraj Chauhan. Prithvi also happens to be the name of one of India's ballistic missiles capable of toting heavy payloads. With a range of 930 miles...
...more urgent task was to stop Pakistan from imitating India's move. As a delegation led by Deputy Secretary Talbott winged toward Islamabad, Pakistan gave every sign that it was about to set off nuclear tests of its own. "We are like a cook waiting for the orders," said Abdul Qadeer Khan, the country's top nuclear scientist. U.S. satellites spying on the Baluchistan desert recorded preparations. In a phone chat, Prime Minister Sharif would not promise Clinton to desist, despite the prospect of being slapped with the same economic sanctions if he didn...
...ISLAMABAD: Washington won?t need on-point satellite intelligence to anticipate Pakistan's test of a nuclear device in the near future. The signs are hard to miss: ?To stop Pakistan from testing, the G8 summit would have had to come out with tangible and strong penalties against India,? says TIME intelligence correspondent Douglas Waller. ?But the summit came up only with rhetoric, not concrete measures...
...sanctions for its nuclear program, adds Waller, ?there are not many levers left to pull." And pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and other opposition parties is likely to spur Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to test. ?Most observers here would be amazed if a test does not take place,? reports TIME Islamabad correspondent Hannah Bloch...
...While such news is meant to impress the Big Five -- America, Russia, Britain, France and China -- it won't go down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...