Settling a score?

International | | The Editors

Joyful Pakistanis shot their guns in the air, celebrating the news last week that their country had successfully detonated five nuclear bombs-settling, in the words of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, "the score with India."

"Today the flames of the nuclear fire are all over," Mr. Sharif said. "I am thankful to God that ... we have jumped into these flames ... with courage." He also thanked ally China-another of India's rivals-for its help but did not specify what that entailed.

In announcing the explosions, Pakistani government officials said they were giving nuclear muscle to a missile capable of striking most parts of India, "a befitting reply to any misadventure by the enemy," an official statement said.

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