India is one of the few countries in the world who is striving for peace development and security. It has always helped poor underdeveloped developing nations to strive for progress and peace. It conducted nuclear test only for its regional security and never did it violate any international norms or regulations in transferring, smuggling or sale of its devices or missiles or nuclear technology. It is one of the few countries who is advocating the ban of all nuclear and weapons of mass destruction.
However, there are some countries in the world who want to go in parallel with India or disturb its status quo without understanding their role. For the First time in the World in what considered to be an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system that could speed up the Pakistani military’s development of multi-warhead missiles. This Tracking System could allow Islamabad to speed up development of the missile that can target multiple cities or military sites. The device records high-resolution images of a missile’s departure from its launcher, stage separation, tail flame and, after the missile re-enters the atmosphere, the trajectory of the warheads it releases.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said China was the first country to export such sensitive equipment to Pakistan. The Chinese team enjoyed VIP treatment during the nearly three months it spent in Pakistan assembling and calibrating the tracking system and training technical staff on how to use it.
China’s role in Defense Relationship with Pakistan is too strong since last fifty years. Some of the important include China’s supply to Pakistan with 34 short-range ballistic M-11 missiles, JF-17 aircraft, JF-17 production facilities, F-22P frigates with helicopters, K-8 jet trainers, T-85 tanks, F-7 aircraft, small arms, and ammunition. Beijing has also built a turnkey ballistic-missile manufacturing facility near the city of Rawalpindi and helped Pakistan develop the 750-km-range, solid-fueled Shaheen-1 ballistic missile. China Shipbuilding Trading Company (CSTC) and Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW) concluded an agreement for the construction of six new maritime patrol vessels for the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) with four ships to be built in China and the remaining two in Pakistan. China has also agreed to sell Pakistan eight modified diesel-electric attack submarines by 2028, although it remains unclear what type of boats will be delivered.
The Pakistani military and the People’s Liberation Army regularly engage in joint military drills, naval and Air exercise. China through North Korea also helped and armed Pakistan since 1980’s. Pakistan has been accused by US officials of having secretly supplied North Korea with nuclear technology for military purposes. Dr. A. Q. Khan, a senior atomic research scientist, has travelled to North Korea several times and provided crucial technological aid to the North Korean government to create HEU. Pakistan purchased Nodong missiles from North Korea. The Nodong, it is generally believed, was acquired in the mid-1990s (1997) and renamed Ghauri. The Ghauri has been repeatedly test-flown in Pakistan.
Indian intelligence sources to have confirmed the North Korea-Pakistan trade-off, partly based on the documents they found on board a North Korean ship which they intercepted in 1999 at an Indian port en route to Karachi from Pyongyang, carrying 170 tonnes of material suspected to be metal casings and missile components. In late 2003, a convoluted turn of events involving nuclear safeguards inspections in Iran and a decision by Libya in December to renounce its WMD programs provided evidence that Pakistani scientists had supplied nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. While a Japanese report stated that Pakistan had exported actual centrifuge rotors to North Korea. In one way or the other China Pakistan, North Korea had coordinated exchanged or transferred some sensitive technology which affected India’s and world’s Security.
According to a recent study report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute more than 60 per cent of China’s military exports went to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar and another 22 per cent went to Africa. China is raking up the arms race in South Asia by supplying arms ammunitions missiles to Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh to name few Maldives in Making.
Pakistan is a country of Non-State Actors, harbour to Dreaded Terrorists like Dawood Ibrahim, Mullah Omar, Osama Bin Ladan, Hafiz Saeed’s his Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Haqqani Network, Al Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban to name few. The world is worried about Pakistan actions and China’s support in arming it. China’s increasingly close economic ties with Pakistan reduced American leverage there. With more than $50 billion in planned infrastructure projects and strong diplomatic support for its positions, American threats to withdraw billions in military aid are becoming less worrying for the powerful army, which dominates foreign policy.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects form the cornerstone of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s so-called ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative. And the Chinese funded port of Gwadar gives Beijing a deep sea port in the Arabian Sea, close to mutual rival India with whom China is currently engaged in a Himalayan border dispute. There are also about 20,000 Chinese workers in Pakistan, double the number two years ago, and Pakistan’s military is firmly behind CPEC.
At last, one can say that Pakistan is widely engaged in exporting and importing all manner of nuclear and missile technologies, sub-systems and materials to Iran, Libya and North Korea. N. Korea-Pakistan deal would be the first case of Bomb-making know-how being transferred from one state to another. Now China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system that could speed up the Pakistani military’s development of multi-warhead missiles. India suspects that China’s secret defence cooperation with Pakistan is still continuing. So, for now, Pakistan itself is ready to leave America for CHINA….. ‘as declared by Pakistan and China their relations for now! Are higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, sweeter than honey? But India is under Threat and a watch has been signalled. As the missiles, nuclear technology or tracking systems can go too wrong hands like Non-State Actors ISIS, Al Qaeda, or JuD.
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