India's NSG membership will affect regional stability: Sharif

October 29, 2016 16:57

Pakistan has said India getting membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group will affect security in South Asia and derail "global non-proliferation'.

Pakistan says India's military nuclear programme is a threat to peace and it should not be admitted to NSG.

"This build-up (of nuclear arsenal) has been facilitated by the 2008 Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver granted to India, which not only dented the credibility of the non-proliferation regime and undermined its efficacy, but also negatively affected the strategic balance in South Asia,' said Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakariya at a weekly press briefing, reports the Dawn.

Zakariya said that another country-specific exemption by the NSG regarding membership would make the ill effects of the 2008 exemption worse.

It remains our hope that the NSG member states would make a well-considered decision this time keeping in view its long-term implications for the global non-proliferation regime as well as strategic stability in our region, he said.

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