ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan\u2019s Full Spectrum Deterrence Capability helped maintain strategic stability in the region despite Indian misadventures.
\nThis was stated by Lt Gen (R) Mazhar Jamil, advisor on development for the National Command Authority, while speaking at the launch of a book edited by Dr Zafar Iqbal Cheema and published by Strategic Vision Institute titled \u2018Problems and Prospects of the Non-Proliferation Regime: Pakistani Perspectives\u2019.
\nThe book, an edited volume presenting a variety of perspectives by eminent scholars on nuclear non-Proliferation regime, was launched at the Air University.
\nGen. Jamil said that Pakistan had developed the full spectrum deterrence (FSD) capability due to its security concerns.
\n\u201cPakistan as a responsible country has always shown restraint and responded only to India\u2019s destabilizing actions and there is a legitimate security interest in restoring the stability,\u201d he maintained.
\nFSD is a concept that entails development of nuclear weapons in all three domains \u2013 strategic, operational and tactical \u2013 that could reach any part of the Indian Territory.
\nThe general, who previously headed Strategic Plans Division, said Pakistan, despite the challenges confronted by it, \u201cengaged responsibly\u201d with the global arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation structures and \u201ccontributed positively\u201d to the non-proliferation regime.
\nGen. Jamil criticized the global non-proliferation regime for being politicized and increasingly discriminatory.
\n\u201cThe selective application of its rules has not only weakened the non-proliferation regime and (undermined) regional strategic stability, but has also posed threat to the global security,\u201d the NCA adviser observed while referring to the waiver given to India in 2008 by the Nuclear Suppliers Group allowing it to access civilian nuclear technology and fuel from other countries.
\nQuoting excerpts from the book, he said, today India has the fastest growing nuclear program with eight reactors outside IAEA safeguards. This, he feared, would affect the strategic stability in South Asia.
\nGen Jamil, therefore, emphasized that a multilateral, non-discriminatory regime that improves its institutional mechanisms was not only needed for \u201cbuilding peaceful global environment\u201d, but also for bringing \u201cmuch needed stability to South Asia\u201d.
\nAir University Vice Chancellor Javaid Ahmed, while chairing one of the sessions, said the international community had failed to create consensus on non-proliferation.
\nEditor of the book, President and Executive Director SVI Zafar Iqbal Cheema, while speaking about the book, said that earlier there was no book containing Pakistani perspectives on non-proliferation regime.
\nThe book published by SVI, he said, will fill the gap existing in the available literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Pakistan\u2019s Full Spectrum Deterrence Capability helped maintain strategic stability in the region despite Indian misadventures. This was stated by Lt Gen (R) Mazhar Jamil, advisor on development for the National Command Authority, while speaking at the launch of a book edited by Dr Zafar Iqbal Cheema and published by Strategic Vision Institute titled \u2018Problems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-national"],"yoast_head":"\n