Now equating is something one can debate on. Pakistan knows that very well. They know that they will never be able to match with India in terms of numbers. However, they are trying to off-set this disadavntage by quality.
In weapons systems, they have achieved this parity whether we accept this or not.
Their ballistic and cruise missiles are examples. Their engineers and sceintist who we always thought inferior to us, have done all that.
These Pakistanis have mastered the art of stealing technology and then reverse engineering it.
I have met a Pakistani Engineer in Dubai who told me that nodong missiles of Korean orgin have been so much improved that now if Korean want to learn how to develop accurate missiles, they should approach Pakistan now.
They way he was telling me technicalities of missiles and its systems made me stunned about the level of know how and technical maturity of Pakistani scientific and engineering community. Interestingly he was aware that I am Indian and whatever he disclosed to me was an engineering facts only.
The thing that surprised me was the knowledge and the speed with which Pakistanis arrange forbidden components from around the world.
I am warning my Indian countrymen that your enemy is not the enemy of 1971. We need to reassess our views about the small country called Pakistan. My worst nightmare would be to see Pakistan becoming an Israel of subcontinent.
