India-Israel Co-operation and Challenges

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11 September 2004: <b>Pakistan has threatened to make an international incident of seven-hundred clandestine aerial pictures that Israeli warplanes have taken of Pakistani nuclear facilities in the past two months unless it apologises.

Earlier, Pakistan reckoned the Indian Air Force was violating its airspace, but subsequently, in fourteen sorties detected by Pakistani air defence, the Israelis were exposed, whereas in at least thirty more sorties, they beat Pakistani radars.

While diplomats could not explain how the Pakistani military junta expected not to face domestic flak by exposing Israeli violations, they insisted that if Israel did not apologise, Pakistan could take the matter to the OIC.</b>

Since news surfaced some months ago of Pakistani proliferation to Iran, Israel-Pakistan relations have plunged, with the growing threat of an Israeli strike against Pakistani nuclear facilities, and the reconnaissance pictures could have been part of the Israeli exercise.

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