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Pakistan for strategic system instead of huge arsenal-daily

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Feb 7, IRNA - Pakistan is no more seeking to match India`s 
conventional weapons and instead is focussing on strengthening its 
strategic systems, a local press report said. 
Dawn newspaper reported on Monday that since the signing of the 
US dollar 3 billion aid package at the US presidential resort at Camp 
David, two years ago, Pakistan and the US have been engaged in 
intensive discussion over US assistance to strengthen Pakistan`s 
defence capabilities. 
The report said that contrary to general believe, at these talks, 
Pakistan never said it wishes to match India`s conventional arsenal 
as Islamabad knows "it can`t compete with India in conventional 
weapons and they do not need to". 
After the detonation of its nuclear devices in 1998 in response 
to India`s, Pakistan has developed a new defence strategy of meeting 
an Indian threat with the help of strategic systems, not conventional 
weapons, the paper added. 
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