I appreciate your education about Pakistan's nuclear programme. But I must say you missed out on the broad point that I have been making. china is using Pakistan as a front against India. You see everybody (read China,US and even Russia) gains when India and Pakistan point missiles toward each other. That was the rationale for the partition anyway. Where are we after 60 years? still holding secretary level talks and staring each other in the eye. If this had been one country, call it by whatever name, The US would have been fighting a cold war with this entity for control in Asia (the whole Asia). Unfortunately this logic seems to elude people who seek oneupmanship in both India and Pakistan.