Combat Weapons
Combat Weapons
The militants procure most of their weapons from Pakistan. Although many long-time observers of the region believe that Pakistan has directly provided weapons to militants in Kashmir, there are many complexities about the arms supply relationship. Most of these weapons have come from the arms bazaar in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (nwfp)-a vast black market for weapons-and members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (isi), operating either on their own or with the tacit or explicit complicity of the central Pakistani government. The ISI has also operated training camps for Kashmiri militants.
One of the primary concerns is the fact that both nations involved in the dispute over Jammu Kashmir hold nuclear weaponry capabilities. Also neither country has signed the nuclear proliferation treaty, nor do they seem intent on signing.
The original intent of nuclear weapons also shows the differing tactics for such capabilities. India built nuclear weapons to fend off the Chinese, not Pakistan. Then, Pakistan built their weapons in response to India's initiation of stockpiling.
However, both sides realize war would be a disastrous result for resolving the conflict.
Krishna Kishore, a faculty member in the College of Communications and a resident of India, agrees that nuclear war is very unlikely between Pakistan and India.
"Both sides are extremely cautious of escalating this beyond the diplomatic and border fronts," Kishore said. "It is basically a cold war."
Kishore, who is from Kerala in the southern tip of India, added that if war was to break out, it would have happened by now, but with changes to the geopolitical realm, nobody knows who will support them.
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