Race scary, 'deadly cocktail'

Efforts and attention devoted to reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, has overshadowed the growing risks of nuclear proliferation in other countries in the world. Nuclear fierce competition in South Asia is seen by many as a recipe for instability in a region burdened with many problems.

In South Asia, a region of violent and unstable, is escalating military and nuclear rivalry between states, but also the fear that it will continue nuclear race in the Middle East. This part of the world, South Asia, according to analysts, has quickly become an almost supremacy possesses nuclear weapons Pakistan, China and India.

The rivalry between these three states, also known as "lethal cocktail" is the greater risk, pro according to many analysts, the situation becomes even more complex by mutual suspicions and historical enmities that bedevil in this region.

Pakistan

Pakistan, a country plagued by political and economic uncertainty, the reports were not good with India, believed to be one of the fastest growing in the world in the nuclear field. According to a recent report showed that Pakistan had tripled the number of nuclear warheads compared with a decade ago.

"Nuclear power is a political and military strategy in the eyes of the Pakistani political class is a way to combat political and military power of India. On the other hand, Pakistan has no official doctrine of the threat of nuclear weapons and official statements speak for 'content' and 'prevention' ", writes the BBC, reports lajmi.net.

Pakistani government recently approved the purchase of eight submarines from China. It is not clear from the reports if Islamabad has the capacity to possess nuclear missiles. The agreement with China was said was worth several billion US dollars, and that is one of the biggest deals to purchase arms.

With this agreement, Pakistan tries to intensify the growing battle for military supremacy in the Indian Ocean, an extension on the oceanic area has long been a source of rivalry and tension in the region.

China and Pakistan have had close relations for decades, and it has been based mainly on promoting their mutual suspicion against India. Therefore China has long been a leading supplier of arms to Pakistan, International Peace Research Institute estimates with headquarter in Stockholm.

Recently it was reported that Pakistan has tested a missile capable to carry nuclear heads, medium range, named Shaheen-III. This missile can be fired in 1730 kilometers distance, by introducing the so India within range.

"Therefore, one should not underestimate the rivalry between the two countries, with their troubled history, which includes the wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971", writes the BBC, quoting the Institute of Peace, which recommends nuclear powers not competing weapon that can destroy humanity.

India

Even India has about 110 nuclear warheads, but analysts say it continues to expand its nuclear program with the slower pace. New Delhi has a mixed strategy, combining possession of ballistic missiles of short-range and long action. Place the device tested its first nuclear power in 1974.

And while Pakistan and China is concern India, the latter has shyness official Beijing nuclear force.

China

China with its nuclear weapons and the number of military forces is seen as a regional superpower. According to the International Peace Institute, China has about 250 nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles with the range of action of the three types, short, medium and long-range.

China's nuclear ambitions took off in the 50's of last century, in the wake of the Korean War. Test its first nuclear believed to be carried out in 1964. And according to informed views of commentators, Chinese nuclear capability will continue to grow in the coming years.

Even the Chinese government has nuclear weapons slogan "No to the first use" but for "protection". The country is a signatory to the "Non-Proliferation Treaty" (NPT) and is also a signatory to the Comprehensive Nuclear Treaty 'Test -Ban' (CTBT), but has not yet ratified it.

Instability

Race with nuclear weapons could potentially be lethal because even the "cocktail" of territorial disputes and border terrorism between these three countries. Capacity and other world powers to influence the reduction of tension is hampered by the fact that neither India nor Pakistan have not signed the Non Proliferation Treaty NPT.

Economic and political instability of Pakistan also raises big questions and more disturbing. The country is constantly challenged by militant groups and there is great fear that these groups could get their hands on nuclear material, despite strong insistence that the Pakistani state and its nuclear facilities are safe.

United States of America and Russia still possess more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, but three states of the South Asian above remain a growing concern, and perhaps, despise negotiations with Iran, for the benefit of humanity, will be was the place that attention and increased commitment to peace in this region.