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Pakistan’s nuclear assets

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  1. pakistanpal
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    Pakistan’s nuclear assets
    The tired tirade of Pakistan’s nuclear assets falling into the wrong hands continues. The most recent comment in regard to this appeared on the BBC news website on January 23 with this news channel’s Shoaib Hasan questioning whether the allegedly forty or so nuclear warheads were sufficiently secured against an Al Qaeda takeover. Despite Pakistan’s Foreign Office dismissing this and similar submissions as “outlandish musings” given the multi-layered security arrangements in place to protect the arsenal, western media circles persist with questioning the ability of Pakistan’s security apparatus to safeguard it. This is slighting, not just to the Pakistani personnel deputed to sentry the arsenal, but also to the facility in the US where they are said to have received their training. In addition questions concerning Pakistan’s sovereignty are raised. Then there are the matters of Al Qaeda’s capabilities to battle the Pakistan army, which stands as the ultimate sentinel over the bombs, and the terrorist organization’s potential to acquire a delivery system which might pose the greater threat. All in all it would appear that the repeated reference to the vulnerability of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal has less to do with Bin Laden acquiring the bomb and more with facilitating NATO’s presence in Pakistan.

    Posted 4 years ago on 28 Jan 2008 9:14 #

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