No need for nuclear arsenal once Kashmir issue is resolved: Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan said that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is "merely a deterrent" to protect the country, and will be rendered obsolete once the Kashmir issue is resolved.

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is “simply a deterrent” to protect the country and there will no longer be any need for it once the Kashmir issue is resolved, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said as he asserted that if the Americans have the resolve and the will, the issue can be sorted out. Pakistan has 165 nuclear warheads as of January this year, and it appears to be expanding its nuclear arsenals, a study by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said last week. Pakistan had 160 nuclear warheads as of January last year, it said. “I don't know where they've come up with this. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is simply a deterrent, to protect ourselves,” Prime Minister Khan said during an interview with the news programme Axios on HBO, which was reported by Dawn online.