GENEVA: Arms negotiators failed to start talks on Tuesday on cutting nuclear weapons when Pakistan blocked the adoption of the 2010 agenda for the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.The conference, the world’s sole multinational negotiating forum for disarmament, spent much of 2009 stuck on procedural wrangles raised by Pakistan after breaking a 12-year deadlock to agree a programme of work.
The impasse on Tuesday suggested 2010 would be another year of halting progress.Pakistan, which tested a nuclear weapon in 1998, is wary of the proposed focus in the programme on limiting the production of fissile material, which would put it at a disadvantage against longer-standing nuclear powers such as India.
Musharraf proved excessively compliant from the beginning and this came as a shock even to the Bush Administration, but they realised his limitations in terms of compromises at the tactical level because of the military – which often put a spanner in the US agenda for Pakistan. Hence the constant critique of the Pakistan military and its intelligence outfits – especially once the CIA fell out with the ISI two years ago over whom to target in FATA.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is a dangerous pattern connecting the events happening in and around Pakistan today. Unless we can see this larger picture, we will be overwhelmed by the fallout and our detractors like the US will have fulfilled their agenda for this nuclear capable country.
The roots of this US agenda go back to Musharraf’s hasty embrace of the US “war on terror”. What was not realised at the time was the psychological trauma the US had undergone as a result of 9/11, which had led to the bolstering of the already suspicion-tinted view the US had of the Muslim world. Of course, some pliant Muslim leaders were reluctantly embraced as “allies”, but always on a tight leash, but by and large nationalist Muslim leaders and their nations were something the Americans never felt comfortable with. If these nations were also militarily or economically strong, the US felt even more uncomfortable. In this context, Mahathir’s Malaysia, Revolutionary Iran and nuclear Pakistan certainly stood out as irritants in one way or another. So when 9/11 happened, even though it was Saudi citizens who were responsible for the actions, Pakistan was brought centre-stage and the US saw this as the opportunity to cut the country down to size and finally gain control of its nuclear assets.
Makhdoom Babar in Islamabad & Christina Palmer in New Delhi
While the western media and the western governments keep shouting about vulnerability of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and keep expressing the fears that these are likely to fall in the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have kept their eyes wide shut regarding the state of affairs of the nuclear weapons and nuclear capable missiles of neighbouring India where the situation is highly alarming, reveal the findings of The Daily Mail’s investigations into the matter.
According to The Daily Mail’s investigations, the Indian government, in bid to keep it maximum possible away from the striking capabilities of Pakistan that lies across India’s northern borders, decades back decided to install all its nuclear and missile facilities in the Eastern zone of the country. However, with the passage of time, the eastern region of India emerged as the most disturbed, fragile and ungovernable region of the country with a variety of insurgency movements including that of Naxal rebels, emerging in that very part of the country.
Washington—Taliban jihadists storming Pakistani police stations and army headquarters have revived fears of Islamic extremists hijacking a nuclear warhead. But that particular threat may mostly be the stuff of movie thrillers.
The nightmare is not so much a small group of extremists getting their hands on one bomb, but a large group of them getting the whole country,” said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and an expert on missile and nuclear-weapons systems, according to The Mail and Globe newspaper.
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SPECIAL FEATURE – a must watch program for every Pakistani
Dr. Inam-ur-Rehman, Scientist Emeritus (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) gives a lecture on the past, present & future of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program including threats and propaganda against it. He also clarifies the role of Dr. A. Q. Khan that nuclear technology is not a job for one man, every specialist played his role and whole team should be given due respect particularly Dr. A. Q. Khan because he was expert in Uranium enrichment and without it nuclear warheads are impossible. He also gives brief history of the Nuclear Technology development in the world.
Pakistan’s possession of nuclear weapons prevented India from attacking that country after the terror strikes in Mumbai and the attack on Parliament, former army chief Gen Shankar Roychowdhury has said.
“Do nuclear weapons deter? Of course, they do. Pakistan’s nuclear weapons deterred India from attacking that country after the Mumbai strikes,” he told a seminar in Kolkata on ‘Nuclear Risk Reduction and Conflict Resolve.’
Ahmed Quraishi argues with Dr. Danish from ARY News that Pakistan needs to exercise arrogance that should come naturally to a nuclear and military power. He blames politicians for surrendering national pride. This is part of an effort to penetrate the thick smoke of propaganda that our American ally is spreading about Pakistani nuclear capability globally.
It smells like an effort by some to put a radical U.S. nuclear counterproliferation doctrine on the table now, so when it’s the end of the year and it’s time to deal with that other Muslim country with the destabilizing nuclear capability—you know, the one on the other side of Afghanistan, the one that the Israelis are so upset about—public opinion has been primed to accept the idea that some combination of air strikes, special ops, and insertion of U.S. forces is needed to save the world from an Islamic nuclear program that’s…outta control!
PakNationalists presents this record that offers a compelling material to show how Pakistan’s existing nuclear policy is not only weak but is also robbing the nation of any advantages that could accrue from acquiring advanced nuclear technology.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The Pakistani foreign office never tires of repeating the apologetic line about the strength of the country’s nuclear command.
But behind the scenes, there are signs that actions do not match words. There is a need now for some ‘nuclear arrogance’ in the Pakistani nuclear and defense establishments. Pakistani politicians are too busy in their political musical chair to be of any help. To save the situation, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan Armed Forces will have to intervene to make the requisite changes. These changes should ensure the optimization of the diplomatic and the psychological advantage for a nuclear-armed Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistanis were laughing as a sensitive list of U.S. nuclear sites was mistakenly posted on Internet, the latest in a series of American nuclear security breaches that Pakistanis say places the United States as the world’s most dangerous nuclear power.
Pakistan’s nuclear community is yet to commit any blunders of this scale, although a Pakistani newspaper reported last week that the U.S. government secretly recruited 12 Pakistani scientists and technicians in 1978 to plan sabotage from within designed to look like a nuclear accident. The ISI aborted the CIA plan. Pakistan’s President Zia telephoned President Carter and strongly protested.
Jailing Dr. A. Q. Khan, sending centrifuges to IAEA, government’s silence on American propaganda, and news reports that the government has agreed to some secret concessions in Washington, the blocking of the budget for nuclear research and development, , Pakistan’s refusal to move diplomatically against the U.S.-India nuclear agreement, foreigners are being given access to SPD, and now Congress has been informed how Pakistani nukes are stored. Someone is passing on insider information. Pakistani resolve to protect its nuclear program is growing weaker. What is going on?
An excellent program about Pakistan’s nuclear program with comments from Zaid Hamid, Sheikh Rasheed, Senator Professor Khurshid Ahmed, and Hamid Gul. MUST WATCH!!!
Pakistan has addressed issues of survivability in a possible nuclear conflict through second strike capability.
Pakistan now has deeply buried storage and launch facilities to retain a second strike capability in a nuclear war.
As the US prepared to invade Afghanistan after 9/11, Pervez Musharraf ordered that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal be redeployed to ‘at least six secret new locations’.
Zaid Hamid on Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, its history and the reasons why it became a necessity. Also discusses the persistent threats it has faced not only before the nuclear tests of 1998 which the entire Muslim world celebrated as their own, but even today.
Zaid Hamid also pays a touching tribute to our unsung heroes – those mujahids who risked and often lost their lives in helping Pakistan achieve nuclear status – those that you haven’t read or heard about on tv or in the papers. They deserve our prayers for their ultimate sacrifice not for personal recognition, but for Islam and the ideology of Pakistan.
A must watch program. First aired on Youm-e-Takbeer last year.
On May 28 1998, Pakistan successfully conducted nuclear tests and became the only Islamic country with nuclear capability under heavy pressure from western nations which never wanted to see an Islamic country equipped with nukes. This miracle and gift from Allah revived Muslims in entire world and became pride of Muslims from Pakistan to Arab world to Turkey.
From that date to present day, our enemies are working 24 x 7 to disable Pakistan’s nuclear capability and our current government is ready to fulfill demands of their foreign masters but they are facing stiff resistance at every level – from patriotic Pakistanis who are holding their grounds to give foreign agents a tough fight, to our intelligence agencies and armed forces are ready to break arms trying to touch our nuclear arsenal with false intentions.
A brief visual recap how much in difficult situation and dangerous circumstances Pakistan attained nuclear capability.
To qualify for US military assistance, Pakistan will have to produce Dr. A.Q. Khan before American interrogators.Islamabad will also have to pledge to monitor all future activities of the nuclear scientist who is seen as a hero at home but as a villain in the West.
The purpose of the bill, as enunciated in the official text, is ‘to restrict US military assistance to the government of Pakistan.’
The Zardari government cited budgetary constraints to refuse uranium from Kazakhstan. But the real story is that the government has accepted aid in exchange for what appears to be a freeze on Pakistan’s advanced nuclear and strategic programs. These were Washington’s conditions. And it is part of a wider pattern.
