India dismisses Pakistan 'nuclear city' claims

(9 Feb 2017) India's foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed the Pakistani spokesman's remarks of developing a "secret nuclear city," as baseless and a figment of Pakistan's imagination.
Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs said it was "strange" that Pakistan was accusing India of proliferation when Islamabad had not "declared or prepared a separation plan" differentiating between its civil and military nuclear programme.
India accused Pakistan of an "attempt to deflect attention from Pakistan's role as a sponsor of terror."
Tensions have soared between the South Asian rivals in recent months over violence in the disputed Kashmir region, which is split between Indian and Pakistani zones of control and claimed in its entirety by both.
The two nuclear-armed countries have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir.

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