Honest Talk

The world is reeling under financial crisis and trying its best to avoid a disaster. But in the sub-continent, there is another kind of crisis building up. Ever since the 26/11 terror attack, India has been building enormous pressure on world community to isolate Pakistan for its involvement and promotion of terror activities. Amidst this India today successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable BrahMos missile with a range of 290 km at Pokhran in Rajasthan’s desert in a planned launch for the army.

The missile is capable of touching a speed of 2.8 times that of sound, was launched during the trial in its vertical mode. Defense Minister clarified later that it was a pre-planned test and is not aimed at any country. BrahMos is a missile that India is developing in collaboration with Russia and is named after river Brahmputra and Moscow. The two countries have reached an agreement to development of a hyper-sonic missile during late last year.

Pakistan and China, both will be concerned about this. Particularly in Pakistan where the administration is under pressure from every quarter. Its to be seen how pakistan responds to this test firing of missile. Possibility is that they too test fire to satisfy their false ego. This will only further the arms race in the sub-continent.