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Pak will not hesitate to use nukes against India

K J M Varma in Islamabad

A senior Pakistan minister and former Inter-Services Intelligence chief on Wednesday said his country would exercise the nuclear option if its survival was at stake.

"If it ever comes to annihilation of Pakistan then what is this damned nuclear option for, we will use against the enemy," Minister for Railways Javed Ashraf Qazi said.

Qazi told an Iranian news agency that the general view was that there would be mutual destruction on both sides, if nuclear confrontation takes place.

He, however, said Pakistan would fight a conventional war if attacked by India, but won't hesitate to use nuclear weapons in case of the question of its survival.

"If Indians will destroy most of us, we too will annihilate parts of the adversary. If Pakistan is being destroyed through conventional means, we will destroy them by using the nuclear option... as they say 'if I am going down the ditch, I will also take my enemy with me'," he said.

He said in case of a war, there would be tremendous destruction, which would be worse than that of World War II.

He criticised the world community for showing least interest in defusing the tensions between the two countries.

"Nations are just issuing mere sermons not realising the potential dangers of a conflict," he lamented.

He said it could be possible that the US may also be supporting India in the present crisis.

"US was not putting the type of weight it was capable of and that was causing doubts and suspicions in the mind of the people of Pakistan."

Qazi also criticised the UN for not playing a role to defuse the stand-off.

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