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Article: More heat than light: India and Pakistan. (war of words between two countries started to escalate before Pakistan began nuclear testing)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1998
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DELHI AND ISLAMABAD
EVEN before Pakistan conducted its nuclear tests on May 28th, the verbal exchanges between it and its big neighbour to the south had been growing increasingly bellicose. Indeed, if words could kill, India and Pakistan would have destroyed each other several times over in the past fortnight without the help of nuclear weapons. India's minister for parliamentary affairs, Madan Lal Khurana, declared that India was ready to fight a fourth war with Pakistan, and that it would triumph. Pakistan's foreign minister, Gohar Ayub Khan, said his country would survive a nuclear exchange better than India because Pakistan had many small cities that would ...
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