India had to become a nuclear state: Prez
Kalam 
[ Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:56:04 amPTI ]
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SINGAPORE: President A P J Abdul Kalam on
Wednesday said some kind of federation between India and Pakistan
looked a possibility in another 50 years.
"It looks to me that in another 50 years a
federation of the two countries is possible if youth worked towards
it but not an integration," he said when asked at an interactive
session with the students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan International
School in Singapore whether India and Pakistan can reunite.
Prefacing his answer to
the question, the President said the two erstwhile power blocs
Russia and United States, each armed with nuclear warheads, have
"suddenly become friends. The two Germanys have reunited."
In reply to another
question, Kalam suggested India had to go nuclear because of the
presence of atomic weapons in the subcontinent.
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