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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday declared that his country will not be the first to use nuclear weapons against India and would work towards
opening trade, besides underscoring that Kashmir belonged to the Kashmiri people.

and added that Pakistan does not feel threatened by India and they should also not feel threatened by Islamabad. Addressing a conference in Delhi via satellite, Zardari said that he was against nuclear warfare altogether.

“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.

Seeking to reach out to people across the border, 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.” Zardari also favoured India and Pakistan rising as an “economic block” like greater Europe.

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