Nuclear Pakistan: inevitable necessity

Why be nuclear? Some affluent, powers particularly of the West became nuclear as a hobby and to show off their power but a few others did that out of necessity for their existence as an independent and sovereign country; Pakistan included.
Admitted, to become nuclear is costly, shall we say, very very costly and once that is achieved it devolves deep responsibility and restraint; there are countries that aspire for the coveted bomb in spite of the risk of UN sanctions. The question is what is so attractive about it. Two of the primary reasons to go nuclear are: One; to subjugate, silence and browbeat one's so-called enemy or potential enemy countries as the USA did in World War II to silence and eliminate Japan by dropping two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two; to safeguard and deter others from subjecting a similar action against you. In plain words to deter aggression against your country.
As far as Pakistan is concerned it has neither any aggressive designs against any country nor the resources and economic capability to reconstruct and rehabilitate any devastated land thus annexed. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is purely deterrent.
Pakistan has in India a very powerful and extremely hostile neighbour that is over five times bigger in size, manpower, economic resources, well trained and more sophistically equipped armed forces with well provided recovery capabilities, Pakistan no doubt has equally well disciplined and trained armed forces but these are much inferior in numbers and equipment's. It is fact of history that in all the conventional wars fought so far between the two countries Pakistan never got better of India that is Bharat.
I am sure and it ought to be clear in the right thinking Pakistani minds that days of chivalry when one Muslim was good enough for ten adversaries are now over, this is the twenty-first century and with the changed politico strategic environments and advanced and sophisticated weaponry it is not on for us to march on to Lal Qila in New Delhi. Sooner we apprehend it the better. In the short course of our history we have known that in conventional conflict. Pakistan cannot match the armed might of India. Pakistan therefore must try to prevent that situation to arise and for this Pakistan going nuclear was the only option.
Lately there had been lot of talk decrying the need of Pakistan going nuclear. Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy had been in the forefront, along with a few of his ilks, of this non-nuclear Pakistan campaign. A former senior bureaucrat, one time chief secretary of Sindh has now jumped into the foray in denouncing Pakistan being nuclear with an article titled Nuclear Asset or Liability in one of the leading dailies on June 7, 2009. To start with the very caption of this article is misleading as from it the reader expected that the main thrust and the theme of this article would be against Pakistan being nuclear. It was not. It was only causally commented upon in the concluding part of the article.