NEW DELHI - Stressing that nuclear weapons are not for fighting wars, Army Chief General VK Singh on Sunday said these weapons must be used for strategic purposes only, reported Indian media.
“Nuclear weapons are not for war fighting, let’s be quite clear on it. They have got a strategic capability and that is where it should end. My Army and I are not bothered about who has nuclear weapons’’.
We have our task cut out and we will progress along that,” he told reporters here.
On reports that Pakistan may deploy its forces along its borders with India as a defensive measure in case of any terror strike here, he said, “It does not affect our option in anyway. Those are their options; what they want to do, they are most welcome to do.”
Gen Singh parried a question on whether the Finance Ministry has put a stop on some of the procurement plans of the Army.
“I don’t know. Every Ministry has its own procedure. I am quite sure they are following their own procedure and the country’s leadership is quite alive to what the needs of the armed forces are,” he said and hoped that things will be accordingly put into motion.
On the Gujarat High Court’s recent order to release a list of Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) held in Pakistan, he said, “Discussion is going on this issue since 1965 and 1977. Government is trying its best for this. The court’s decision will be added to it.”