Pakistan in trade and arms offer to India

Pakistan in trade and arms offer to India

By James Lamont in New Delhi and Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad

Published: November 23 2008 22:24

The Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari announced that Pakistan wants to end the feud with India, which began in 1947 during the partition of India. Both of these nations posses nuclear weapons and have fought many wars with each other. Pakistan will also withdraw first strike nuclear threat; Ali Zardari claims that Pakistan will not be the first country to use nuclear weapons against India. Further Zardari offered to join India in a south Asian nuclear-proliferation pact.

This year Pakistan is finalizing a financial rescue package with Kashmir the disputed Muslim majority in India. Zardari claims that India could aid Pakistan economically by opening its borders for trade and creating an economical union. Zardari is trying to write a new chapter in Indo-Pakistani history, “The big question is, can President Zardari take along Pakistan’s ruling establishment, especially the military?” said Lieutenant General (retired) Talat Masood, a Pakistani commentator.