Is Pakistan's nuclear program still a source of concern?

Expansionist India led by Indira Gandhi believed that a truncated Pakistan was doomed after it was divided in two in 1971. India began to see itself as the future superpower of South Asia and global power because no other South Asian nation posed any threat to it. It believed that its age-old dream of establishing Akhand Bharat was attainable, and its imperialist ambitions were bolstered by its victory in East Pakistan.

India decided to continue using its weapon of sabotage and subversion in the smaller provinces of shrinking Pakistan, with a focus on Baluchistan and Sindh, given its outstanding success in the war in 1971. With the assistance of the former USSR, India also began to modernize and expand its armed forces, becoming its largest arms supplier.

India's nuclear and missile development Homi Bhabha developed India's three-stage nuclear power program in the 1950s. India carried out the first weaponized nuclear explosion in August 1974 at Pokhran and gave it the name "Smiling Buddha" with assistance from the nuclear reactor in Canada. Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and France provided the uranium for its imports. The United States and Israel provided additional support after 1992. India is thought to have between 90 and 120 nuclear weapons with a variety of means of delivery.

Prithvi, Trishil, Akash, Brahmos, and Agni are among the range of guided missiles that operate both air-to-surface and surface-to-air. Because it uses its military might to intimidate and bribe its neighbors, India has completed the nuclear triad and is expanding its nuclear arsenal. India was free to develop its nuclear capability thanks to the West and the United States.

ZA Bhutto secretly established Pakistan's nuclear program in 1974 at PAEC under Dr. Munir and 1976 at Kahuta under Dr. AQ Khan, alarmed by India's dangerous intentions. India was to be discouraged from undertaking a similar military mission in 1971.

Pakistan's nuclear program is viewed as a monstrosity. In 1978, during Jimmy Carter's administration, the United States made Pakistan a target for its nuclear program and imposed sanctions on it based on mere suspicion.

The three devised strategies to disable the program after it became a monstrosity for Israel and India as well. The two partners made two unsuccessful attempts to blow up the Kahuta enrichment plant using air strikes.

During the time of Ronald Reagan, Pakistan's uranium enrichment program was ignored because of its own selfish interests in the Afghan war, in which Pakistan played a leading role. Every year, Reagan was required to provide Congress with a certificate certifying that Pakistan's nuclear program was solely for peaceful purposes. In 1984, KRL carried out the cold tests, taking advantage of the compulsion imposed by the United States and assistance totaling $3.5 billion.

Pakistan was forced to illicitly acquire fissile material from the black market and sought assistance from China and North Korea to develop its missile program as a result of Western reservations and stringent controls. It has ballistic missiles with short, medium, and long ranges, including the Nasr, Exocet, Abdali, Babur, Ghauri, and Shaheen, which have a range of 2750 kilometers.

After Afghanistan achieved all of its goals, Reagan cruelly imposed economic and military sanctions on Pakistan in 1990 to prevent it from pursuing its nuclear program—known as the "Islamic Bomb." It was feared that Pakistan's radical elements would force the government to hand over the bombs to its Middle Eastern allies. India's BJP government under Vajpayee threatened to annex AJK and deployed Prithvi missiles along the Line of Control. Bill Clinton took a hostile stance toward Pakistan because he was overexcited about the strategic relationship with India. When Nawaz Sharif refused to halt the reactive six nuclear tests in May 1998 in response to India's five nuclear tests, he imposed additional sanctions.

The carrot-and-stick strategy of George W. Bush Despite the United States' designation of Pakistan as a strategic partner once more in September 2001, India was actually the preferred option, and Pakistan was one of the US's targets.

Covert operations as well as political and economic destabilization were going to be used to denuclearize Pakistan.

Pakistan was accused of nuclear proliferation in the wake of the 2004 IAEA report that KRL had transferred nuclear designs to Iran and Libya.

By asserting that Pakistan's nuclear program was risky and likely to fall into the wrong hands, the Bush administration shrewdly denigrated it.

This theme was repeatedly played due to the TTP's growing terrorism in Pakistan. Pakistan wisely declined an offer of joint control of the nuclear facilities on multiple occasions.

Pakistan was also strongly urged to unilaterally sign the CTBT and NPT, but it did not press India to do so. Under the guise of making India a defensive fortress against China, India's conventional and unconventional strengths were constantly strengthened, disrupting the balance of regional security.

In addition to numerous defense and economic agreements in 2006 and 2008, Bush took a significant step toward improving relations with India by signing a civil nuclear agreement.

Blackwater was brought into Pakistan's major cities in 2008 to start urban terrorism in addition to establishing the US intelligence network.

Pakistan's countermeasures Pakistan made sure that its nuclear and missile programs were completely secure by meeting all of the IAEA's safety standards to reduce US pressure. The SPD under Lt. Gen. Kidwai was the main force in this, and Gen. Musharraf deserves praise.

The nuclear doctrine was made official, and the ideas of "minimum nuclear deterrence" and "First Use" were made. Now, the idea of "Full Spectrum Deterrence" is being used. For improved performance and coordination, the SPD was given control of all nuclear and missile-related organizations. Strategic Force Command now oversees the missile force.

Pakistan has also completed its triad after acquiring the capability to launch cruise missiles from the sea. In terms of precision and quality, Pakistan has a distinct advantage over India when comparing the capabilities of the two neighbors. Because of restrictions imposed by its nuclear arsenal, India has avoided war since 1971 and is now engaging in indirect, covert warfare.

Discrimination by the United States Pakistan's efforts to combat militant groups on its soil at the US's direction were never successful. It was associated with Al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, as well as some militant groups in South and North Waziristan, and it used sticks to accuse it of not doing enough. On the one hand, it gave money to fight terrorism. On the other, it used sticks to say that it wasn't doing enough. The presumptions and suspicions that underpinned the accusations were never proven.

The CIA provided covert assistance to militant groups. The US and Human Rights Watch disapproved of Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts in Baluchistan. The Baloch separatist movement is supported by the US, India, and Israel.

Prejudices and aggressiveness of Barack Obama During Obama's presidency, India's nuclear program was further bolstered by granting it access to international Nuclear Suppliers Groups, despite India's refusal to sign the NPT and CTBT and the establishment of a massive nuclear center in Karnataka, which is located in Madras. India never received any reprimand for the numerous thefts and accidents that occurred in its nuclear facilities. In 2015 and 2016, high-profile strategic agreements were signed by the United States in an effort to make India a fortress against China and a protector of the Asia-Pacific region.

On the other hand, Pakistan's purchase of high-tech weapons and nuclear technology was stopped in its tracks by the US, and multiple plans were made to stop its nuclear program, including sabotage, moving the weapons to a safe location under UN supervision, and a sting operation to destroy them.

RAW and NDS were supported by the CIA in their massive proxy war against Pakistan. At the same time, the three strategic partners created a narrative that portrayed Pakistan as the world's most dangerous country and the birthplace of terrorism. It was alleged to either be complicit with the terrorists or incapable of dealing with them. Beginning in 2009, a drone war of high intensity was launched.

In 2015, the CPEC became another source of contention for the Indo-US-Israeli nexus, along with the nuclear program. In order to dissuade Chinese workers on CPEC projects, RAW and NDS carried out ongoing terror attacks in Baluchistan, the former FATA, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).