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U.S. Not Alarmed by Pakistani Missile Test
The U.S. State Department yesterday expressed no reservations about Pakistan’s first cruise missile test, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Aug. 11). “It’s important to us that actions by states on the subcontinent are done in ways that aren’t provocative, in ways that aren’t threatening. I think that by all accounts that test met that criteria,” said State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli. “My understanding was that it was done in a way that was not alarming, it was not a surprise. But I’d leave it to the two parties to speak further to that since it involves them directly,” he added. Ereli said there was “nothing I have to share with you on that score” when asked if Pakistan received foreign assistance in developing the cruise missile (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Aug. 11). However, K. Santhanam, a former chief adviser at the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization, said Pakistan does not have the technology to develop a cruise missile independently, the Times of India reported yesterday. Santhanam speculated that the missile came from China. “China is peddling at least two types of cruise missiles in the international market. … My assessment is that this Pakistani missile is of Chinese origin, with a label change,” he said (Rajat Pandit, Times of India, Aug. 11).
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