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\ When asked to comment on a report by a Pakistani think- When asked to comment on a report by a Pakistani think-\tank that India can produce a maximum of 356-492 nuclear\weapons, Zakaria said, \\"Pakistan has long maintained that\India\\’s rapidly expanding military nuclear programme poses a\grave threat to peace and stability in the region and beyond.\\"\ \\"These concerns have been fully validated by publicly\available reports on significant upcoming fissile material\facilities and build up of unsafeguarded weapon usable fissile\material in India,\\" he said.\ \\"This buildup has been facilitated by the 2008 NSG waiver\granted to India, which not only dented the credibility of theon-proliferation regime and undermined its efficacy, but alsoegatively affected the strategic balance in South Asia.\ \\"It was unfortunate that the NSG did not require India to\make any worthwhile non-proliferation commitments at the\time.\\"\ He said that another country-specific exemption by the\Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on the membership question would\only further exacerbate the ill effects of the 2008 exemption.\ \\"It remains our hope that the NSG member states would make\a well-considered decision this time keeping in view its long-\term implications for the global non-proliferation regime as\well as strategic stability in our region,\\" he said.\ He blamed India for engaging in terror activities in\Pakistan and said that Islamabad was working on dossiers based\on confession of an alleged Indian agent.\ \\"We have irrefutable evidence of that. We have also shared\with you many times that the investigations after the arrest\of Kulbushan Jadhav is ongoing and the dossier is being\compiled. As soon as the time is propitious, we will submit\the dossier to the concerned, particularly the UN Secretary\General,\\" he said. PTI SH SUA AKJ\SUA\