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Deterrence theory has worked: Musharraf

Islamabad June 18. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that heightened international concern and India's ``hesitation'' to launch a ``limited war'' demonstrated that strategic balance exists in South Asia and Islamabad's conventional and nuclear capability could deter New Delhi from attacking it.

``International concerns of a nuclear conflict in South Asia, and the hesitation, frustration and inability of India to attack Pakistan or conduct a so-called `limited war', bear ample testimony to the fact that strategic balance exists in South Asia and that Pakistan's conventional and nuclear capability together deter aggression,'' he said last night at a dinner hosted in honour of Pakistan's nuclear scientists and engineers.

Gen. Musharraf claimed that the theory of deterrence has worked, but did not refer to the decisions taken by his Government, particularly to stop cross-border infiltration of militants, as demanded by India. — PTI

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