Pakistan "warns" US!!

Pakistan warns US against selling Patriots to India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Wednesday that any move by India to buy US-made Patriot missiles would plunge the region into crisis and threaten an ongoing peace process between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said Islamabad, a frontline ally in what the US calls its global “war against terrorism”, had conveyed its concern to Washington over New Delhi’s interest in the anti-ballistic missile system. “This is our stance — that this step would be counterproductive, this would erode deterrence, that this would send our region into crisis mode,” Khan told a weekly news briefing..

India was reported to have discussed the possibility of buying Patriots during talks on arms deals with the US this week. The missiles are used for defence against ballistic and cruise missiles and aircraft. The South Asian neighbours both possess long-range missiles capable of striking deep into each other’s territory and carried out back-to-back nuclear tests in May 1998. But after fighting three wars in the past half-century and returning from the brink of nuclear conflict in 2002 they are currently engaged in 13-month-old peace talks.