Pakistan, July 8 -- In Part I of this title, 'New MAD in South Asia', published by Daily Times on June 30, 2025, I argued that the 'Cold War dictum that the nuclear states do not go to war with each other due to the presence of undefendable nuclear weapons held its ground after the establishment of MAD, the same was not to happen in South Asia due to enduring rivalries between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, India and Pakistan.' I insisted that India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who pursues a hardline religious philosophy of Hindutva, cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons because India has an outright conventional numerical superiority over Pakistan in all domains.

Moreover, I have long held the position that in the presence of an...