GROWING UNHOLY NUCLEAR ALLIANCE OF CHINA-NORTH KOREA- PAKISTAN- TURKEY - A THREAT TO INDIA

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A progression of advancements have pulled in the consideration of the International Community to an arising and troubling marvel of Sino-Pak-North Korea-Turkey nexus for atomic expansion. This gathering is surreptitiously procuring atomic and rocket innovation to help the atomic program of Turkey. Turkish President Erdogan's endeavors to obtain atomic weapons and innovation to accomplish his international aspirations have been a significant worry since September 2019, when he straightforwardly announced such expectations. 

The most recent improvement in this setting was the gathering of the Turkish-Pakistan High-Level Military Dialog Group on 22-23 December 2020. Pakistan's Defense Secretary Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Mian Muhammad Hilal Hussain drove the appointment from Islamabad, while Deputy Chief of Turkish Army General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu headed the Turkish group. Media reports demonstrate that one of the fundamental themes on the plan was the atomic conveyance innovation and frameworks. The Pak appointment met top Turkish Army commanders and administrators managing rocket creation and aeronautical military equipment. It included Professor Ismail Demir head of Presidency of Turkish Defense Industries and Temil Kotil, CEO of Turkish Aerospace Limited (TAI). The Pakistani protection designation additionally visited top Turkish guard organizations. Moreover, on the 21st December 2020 Lt. Gen. Sahir Shamshad of Pakistani Army additionally met Lt. Gen. Wali Turkchi of Turkish Army in Ankara for the Second Round of Turkish-Pakistani Military Talks. Media reports showed that move of rocket innovation and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were the focal point of these discussions. 

On the sixteenth June 2020, a German report uncovered that Pakistan and North Korea were associated with seeking after endeavors to fabricate atomic weapons and conveyance frameworks and were acquiring material for such weapons and innovation surreptitiously from Germany and somewhere else in Europe. Such things were acquired by means of China or Turkey. The Sino-Pak-North Korea cooperation is notable over atomic weapons and innovation. Pakistan had provided North Korea the atomic weapons innovation. In 1998, the subtleties of the Pak atomic tests were imparted to North Korea. North Korea has shared the innovation of the rockets. China had given help to both Pakistan and North Korea for their atomic weapon programs. Pakistan had gotten the atomic weapon grade Uranium from China at first. 

On third February 2020, the detainment of a boat (Da Cui Yun) at the Kangla port bearing a Hong Kong banner and destined for Port Qasim in Karachi for wrongly proclaiming autoclave, which can be utilized in the dispatch cycle of ballistic rockets, as a mechanical dryer, likewise proposed Sino-Pak-Turkish endeavors for atomic multiplication. Autoclave is basic for creating silica sheets under controlled tension for the strong fuel to be utilized in the ballistic rockets. It is utilized in long and medium reach rockets like Shaheen II and Nodong. The thing was wrongly pronounced as well as more critically, the boat had a place with a Chinese organization COSCO, which was prior authorized by the US. The objective of the boat was Port Qasim in Karachi, where the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), answerable for Pakistan ballistic rocket program, is based. It was evaluated that the autoclave was intended for Turkey. 

Critically, this was not the first occasion when that a Pak bound boat was distinguished conveying rocket material and wrongly proclaiming them to stay away from identification. During the Kargil struggle, the North Korean boat Ku Wol San was seized at the Kangla port. This boat was conveying rocket segments, metal housings and Scud rocket manuals to Pakistan, which were pronounced as the water sanitizing hardware. 

An investigation by the London based research organization International Institute for Strategic Studies had drawn out that A Q Khan network was helped by the Turkish organizations, which imported atomic related material from Europe, made axis parts and delivered them to Pakistan and different nations. It is emphatically accepted that Turkey could be having various axes, with the help from Pakistan. 

Considering the abovementioned, it is evaluated that China and North Korea are providing atomic innovation and material for conveyance frameworks to Turkey through Pakistan. Pakistan is quickly providing Turkey atomic and rocket innovation and helping with building the last's abilities in these fields. This nexus is growing quick. 

This improvement should be seen with regards to creating vital relations between Pakistan-Turkey. Erdogan desires to arise as the pre-prominent worldwide Islamic pioneer supplanting the Saudi Arabian sovereign. The fractures inside the Islamic countries are obvious inside the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) where the Saudi-drove camp is at loggerheads with an arising gathering involving Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia. 

China's cozy relationship with Islamic nations like Pakistan and Turkey is driven by its essential advantages, however they are philosophically entirely unexpected. Pakistan and Turkey both understand that the Chinese clout would be useful to them in accomplishing their essential destinations. That is the reason these two nations don't restrict the Chinese 'slaughter' of Muslims in Uyghurs. At whatever point they find unlawful transients from Uyghurs in their nations, they unobtrusively hand them over to China. China likewise desires to control Muslims in Uyghurs through them. 

Turkey prior had filled in as the center for A Q Khan's stealthy arrangements. This country however a signatory to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), Erdogan has not made it mystery that he doesn't engage any limitation on Turkey forced by atomic forces. Erdogan sees that Turkey needs atomic weapons to have a similar sort of security which Israel appreciates. 

Pakistan's surreptitious exercises with regards to atomic expansion are notable. Media reports demonstrate that few Pak researchers are currently attempting to help the Turkish atomic program. The developing nexus has genuine security suggestions for the International Community and exceptionally for India. Of late, China-Pak-Turkey bunch have been vocally contradicting India's strategy in J&K-an absolutely interior issue. Their analysis has gotten shriller. Their joined endeavors are to push India out from Afghanistan and Central Asia. India needs to put forth conciliatory attempts to kill this present gathering's joined endeavors against India.

Col Rajendra Shukla (Retdd)