What will be the toll of an India-Pakistan nuclear war?

KARACHI: Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over the occupied Kashmir and ongoing border skirmishes, few have the idea of what the consequences would be if a nuclear war breaks out between the two arch-rivals.

If the war breaks out and the two countries use their nukes against each other, then the casualties in that case would be in millions. A research report puts the immediate toll of casualties resulting from the use of tactical weapons to 12 million, while the people wounded in its wake may number around 2 to 7 million.

These do not include the deaths resulting from the burning of buildings and other properties due to nuclear radiation, while the number of people getting burns and dying afterwards is apart.

Officials at the Pentagon say that even if a nuclear war takes place on a limited scale it would have horrific results and the whole of Asia would suffer from its effects, especially radioactive.

The situation may lead to famine and terrible increase in diseases.

Although it's is said that everything is fair in love and war, yet in war the use of nuclear weapons cannot be justified, keeping Hiroshima and Nagasaki in view.