Outside View: Pakistan tests its IRBM

RIA Novosti’s commentator Pyotr Goncharov wrote a short piece on Pakistan’s recent missile test. Naturally, he puts the test into the perspective of the relationship with India. Goncharov comes to the conclusion that the country’s nuclear potential was a major deterrent in the past, but today it is no longer playing this role. This is in between exemplified by the US-Indian “nuclear romance”. The author hints that Pakistan may turn to Russia in order to get support in its relations with India.
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