India fears arms aid to Pakistan
NZPA Washington | The Indian Ambassador to .the United States said yesterday that his . Government fa-, voured a strong’ arid. stable’ Pakistan, , but feared it.would;. se an Airierlean arms supw to tip the ' military llarice against India.. i‘We have not blindly said trit Pakistan should not. st(ngthen its security or get aris from outside)” Mr K. R.;Varayanan'told members, of te Overseas Writers Club, a of Washington-based corespondents. ’ ‘'Wia feels ..yery strongly . that he . .stability arid security Pakistan is an asset to Indi, but it is not.for aPakistan which is militarised in ’am unbalanced • way.”He gad the .sophisticated planes, 'tanks and other
weapons which press reports said Islamabad sought as part of a proposed United . States military■ aid effort would be usable, hot along its ‘ mountainous border with Afghanistan,-but on. the Indo r Pakistani border. “We. also know that in the past U.S. military assistance . was used only against India.” He also said American arms supplies .to either Pakistan or the. ahti-,Communist insurgents in. Afghanistan - would increase ‘tension and conflict in. the region. He did not know if American arms were, going to Afghan guerrillas? but he - said an. American “refusal to recognise the necessity of. negotiations” for a poltical settlement in Afghanistan left only a military option.
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