Nov 15, 2011

Alarming Arms Purchasing Quest in South Asia

By Zaheerul Hassan 
(Courtesy: Asian Tribune / Nov. 14, 2011

The 17th. SAARC Summit was held from 10-11th November 2001 in Addu City of Maldives. During this time a major participant (India) was concluding her final deal with USA and France for purchasing of F-35 aircrafts and Submarines, whereas rest of the members including the Indians were negotiating for peace, trade, transport, economic integration, security issues, such as piracy, climate change, and good governance etc.
Indian quest for ‘Arms purchasing’ is directly threatening regional peace and security of the countries like China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. This race of increasing artillery between Indio-China and Indo-Pakistan has been sped up when India had daydream of replacing China as regional power after the disintegration of Great Soviet Union. In this regard US is fully supporting Indian desire of expansion because both have common objective of repressing China. ... Click the following link to read full article: 



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