Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, said that Pakistan is running at full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India. Clinton made the statement in an audio recording of the fund-raiser that appeared on the website of The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, which was obtained from the hack of a campaign staff member, reports the New York Times.Going beyond the question to warn of an emerging nuclear arms race, she named Russia, China as well as Pakistan and India saying, “This is one of the most dangerous developments imaginable.” She asserted that people live in fear that Islamabad is going to have a coup.
“Pakistan is running full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India.. But we live in fear that they’re going to have a coup, that jihadists are going to take over the government, they’re going to get access to nuclear weapons, and you’ll have suicide nuclear bombers. So, this could not be a more threatening scenario,” she said. However, it should be noted that the 50-minute recording was made in February when Clinton was the secretary of State.The former secretary of State has expressed doubts about whether Washington should go forward with a trillion-dollar modernization of its nuclear forces, which questions President Barack Obama’s administration plan. She suggested that she would be far tougher against foreign nations that hack into American computer networks and would kill one of the Pentagon’s pet projects, a nuclear-tipped cruise missile.