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Pakistan alarm at USA plan for seizing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons

Cat is out of bag, Pakistan Observer, 6 Aug 11, THE fear that were being expressed in the wake of American unilateral action in Abbottabad that Washington could also one day carry out similar operation against Pakistan’s nuclear assets have heightened after disclosure by the NBC News that the US military and intelligence operatives are debating, strategizing, gaming and potentially even conducting drills on entering Pakistan and seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons during a crisis. This is not a mere conjecture as former White House Deputy Counter-Terrorism Director Roger Cressey has also confirmed that the plan is highest priority of the US intelligence and White House.
Such apprehensions have always been there but the United States has been trying to assuage them by declaring that Pakistani nuclear assets were in safe hands and that it has no designs against them. The categorical statement made by Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator John Kerry during his visit to Islamabad that he was ready to write a guarantee with his blood that his country was not eyeing at the country’s nuclear assets was welcomed by some circles but the cat is out of the bag following report by the NBC News, which is a grim reminder that Americans must not be trusted in this regard…….

 In the backdrop of intensive Indo-US cooperation in the nuclear field, a Pakistani strategic expert has rightly pointed out that the US is seeking only to target Muslim states like Pakistan from developing even their civilian nuclear programmes through restrictions on exports of dual-use technology even where it is needed purely for civilian use — especially in the case of Pakistan since Pakistan’s missile and nuclear weapons programme is not premised on US designs nor dependent on nuts and bolts from the US. We should be on the highest alert as the US is unlikely to digest the reality of a nuclear Pakistan in the near future.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=107366

August 6, 2011 - Posted by | Japan, politics international

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