India said Monday the scale of US military assistance to Pakistan was "disproportionate" to Islamabad's needs and warned it could be used to target India. Defence Minister A.K. Antony said he had raised New Delhi's concerns during talks last week with visiting US National Security Advisor James Jones and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen.
The military equipment being supplied to Pakistan is "disproportionate to the war on terror" for which it was intended, Antony told reporters. "We feel that there is every possibility of diverting this sophisticated equipment against India," he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India. India has previously protested the proposed delivery of unmanned US drones to Pakistan. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since the division of the sub-continent in 1947, and their relationship is beset by mutual mistrust.
An official in India's foreign ministry said they are looking into a massive leak of secret military files that allegedly set out how the intelligence service of assumed US ally Pakistan secretly helps the Afghan insurgency. Some 92,000 documents were released by web whistleblower Wikileaks on Sunday, containing previously untold details of the Afghan war through Pentagon files and field reports spanning from 2004 to the end of 2009.
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