The writer holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University. H Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently arrived in New Delhi after a high-powered campaign in five states, including an address to the US Congress, to seek help in obtaining membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). However, an editorial in The New York Times spoilt the show by declaring that India’s NSG membership was “not merited” until the country meets the group’s…
Posts published in “Day: June 27, 2016”
The writer is an M Phil in Strategic Studies from National Defence University, Islamabad The Nuclear Suppliers Group, or NSG, as it is known more commonly, is in a bind in deciding how to deal with membership applications of India and Pakistan. Ironically, the NSG was created in 1975 because India illegally diverted nuclear technology provided for peaceful use and made a bomb that it tested in 1974. Like Israel and Pakistan, New Delhi never…