Why USA Overlooks Pakistan’s Nuclear Plans?
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Moderate Voice
May 12th, 2009
By SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist
In the annals of diplomacy, and now the war-on-terror, the USA’s continued overlooking of Pakistan’s dangerous role in proliferating nuclear arms within the country, and among rogue states, would remain a great mystery. A recent MSNBC report details more alarming news.
“Without any public U.S. reproach, Pakistan is building two of the developing world’s largest plutonium production reactors, which experts say could lead to improvements in the quantity and quality of the country’s nuclear arsenal, now estimated at 60 to 80 weapons.
“On the dusty plain 110 miles southwest of Islamabad, not far from an area controlled by the Taliban, two large new structures are rising, structures that in light of Pakistan’s internal troubles must be considered ominous for the stability of South Asia and, for that matter, the world.
” ‘Pakistan is really the only country rapidly building up its nuclear forces,’ says a U.S. intelligence
Read more
May 12th, 2009
By SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist
In the annals of diplomacy, and now the war-on-terror, the USA’s continued overlooking of Pakistan’s dangerous role in proliferating nuclear arms within the country, and among rogue states, would remain a great mystery. A recent MSNBC report details more alarming news.
“Without any public U.S. reproach, Pakistan is building two of the developing world’s largest plutonium production reactors, which experts say could lead to improvements in the quantity and quality of the country’s nuclear arsenal, now estimated at 60 to 80 weapons.
“On the dusty plain 110 miles southwest of Islamabad, not far from an area controlled by the Taliban, two large new structures are rising, structures that in light of Pakistan’s internal troubles must be considered ominous for the stability of South Asia and, for that matter, the world.
” ‘Pakistan is really the only country rapidly building up its nuclear forces,’ says a U.S. intelligence
Read more
Labels: Al Qaeda, America, Pakistan's Nukes, Terrorism
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