Joint nuke power plants suggested on Pak-India Border

Dr. Shireen Mazari suggested joint civil nuclear power plants along the border of Pakistan and India.

This would serve as a security confidence building measure, maintaining that this would not only help in meeting energy crisis in both countries but will also prove “the best deterrence” for two nuclear powers.

Strategic and security experts found it “innovative, very interesting but provocative.”

Those present in the meeting thought that it could have been an option but keeping in view the response and behavior of India over already launched confidence building measures and its approach towards Pakistan, it was almost bound to get a cold Indian shoulder like other Pakistani suggestions for lasting peace in the region. It was also observed that confidence building mechanisms including trade cannot work until real progress was made on the core issue of Kashmir.

Dr. Mazari, the Director General Institute of Strategic Studies, was addressing a distinguished audience of security, strategy and foreign policy experts at the Institute of Policy Studies in a seminar on “emerging nuclear scenario”.

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