{"id":44143,"date":"2018-01-14T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44143"},"modified":"2018-01-14T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T08:47:25","slug":"india-is-an-irresponsible-nuclear-state-says-ahsan-iqbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44143","title":{"rendered":"India is an irresponsible nuclear state: says Ahsan Iqbal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 14 (TNS):<\/strong> Hitting back at Indian army chief for his nuclear bluff remarks, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday said that it has been proved that \u201cIndia is an irresponsible nuclear state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nuclear weapons are not pistols or slingshots, they are weapons of mass destruction. Therefore people expect nuclear powers to behave responsibly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal&#8217;s remarks come a day after the Indian Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat threatened to call Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;nuclear bluff&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we will have to really confront the Pakistanis, and a task is given to us, we are not going to say we cannot cross the border because they have nuclear weapons. We will have to call their nuclear bluff,&#8221; Gen Rawat had said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan sharply reacted to his claim, saying such statements from a man of Gen Rawat&#8217;s stature were &#8220;very irresponsible&#8221; and &#8220;not befitting his office&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 14 (TNS): Hitting back at Indian army chief for his nuclear bluff remarks, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday said that it has been proved that \u201cIndia is an irresponsible nuclear state&#8221;. &#8220;Nuclear weapons are not pistols or slingshots, they are weapons of mass destruction. Therefore people expect nuclear powers to behave responsibly,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-44143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44144,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions\/44144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}