India increased its arms imports by 111 percent in the last five years compared to 2004-08, and now represents 14 percent of world arms imports. The mainly Russian-supplied flow of arms to India dwarfs the imports of its regional rivals China and Pakistan, the second- and third-largest buyers. India’s arms-buying is also explained by the country’s failure to satisfy its appetite for weaponry through domestic production. The world community has to convince policy makers of India to review such dangerous and mysterious policy parameters that could have disastrous consequences for the entire region and could ignite a new nuclear arms race in South Asia.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:02:34 +0000
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