Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday that Pakistan will not first use nuclear weapons against India. He also said that he does not favour the use of nuclear weapons at all.
He was speaking at a summit organised by a leading daily thorough video conferencing from Islamabad. This is the first time a Pakistan Leader speaks about no first use of nuclear weapons against India.
"We do not hope to even get to that position when we have to use (nuclear weapons)," he said and proposed a South Asia free of nuclear weapons. He recalled his late wife Benazir Bhutto's lines -- "there is little of Indian in every Pakistani and a little of Pakistani in every Indian."
He hoped that India and Pakistan would become an economically unified unit like the EU zone. To a question on resolution of Kashmir issue, he suggested that people of India and Pakistan should start a dialogue and discuss this matter together.
