Fetched: March 28th, 2008, 9:02pm EDT
Describing itself as a "responsible nuclear state", Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani on Friday said his government will maintain a minimum credible deterrence to ensure peace and stability in the region. A strong and credible defence is the ultimate guarantee for peace, he told Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who called on Gillani at the prime minister's secretariat in Islamabad and congratulated him on assuming office.