'Pak's N-bomb prevented India from attacking it after 26/11'

Kolkata, Mar 9 (PTI) Pakistan's possession of nuclear
weapons prevented India from attacking that country after the
terror strikes in Mumbai and the attack on Parliament, former
Indian Army Chief Gen Shankar Roychowdhury has said.

"Do nuclear weapons deter? Of course, they do.
Pakistan's nuclear weapons deterred India from attacking that
country after the Mumbai strikes," he told a seminar here on
'Nuclear Risk Reduction and Conflict Resolve.'

It was due to Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons
that India stopped short of a military retaliation following
the attack on Parliament in 2001, Roychowdhury said.

Stressing the need for nuclear disarmament, he said in
1988 the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had proposed a
20-year plan for it.

Commissioner in the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Commission (WMDC) Lt Gen V R Raghavan said Pakistan's nuclear
weapons were in safe hands.

"By all indications, Pakistan's nuclear weapons, are in
safe hands and under tight control. But nobody can say what
will happen if the system breaks down. There is concern in the
West about whether the system in Pakistan can be sustained
only through aid," Raghavan said on Saturday. PTI SBR
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