Pk_Thunder
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Enemy at the gates
A section of the press carries reports saying that the US, with the support of rest of the members of the nuclear club, will secretly as well as formally pressurise Pakistan to cap its nuclear programme by forcing it to sign the controversial Fissile Material Cut off Treaty this September at UN General Assembly in New York. The reports are quite worrisome. What is even more worrisome is that they point to the US making preparations for a worse-case scenario of attempting to snatch Pakistans 100-plus nuclear weapons if it feared they were about to fall into wrong hands. Reacting to this development, General Musharraf has rightly said that such a move by the US would be a disastrous miscalculation and warned that it would lead to a total confrontation between the US and Pakistan.
It should now serve as a wake-up call for our subservient leadership to get out of the lap of the US and turn to other genuine allies like China and brotherly nations in the Arab world. What this development shows is that the US is making two plans: one covert and the other overt to defang nuclear Pakistan, hence its bias towards our homeland. First of all, the US is itself the biggest proliferator of the fissile material as is manifest from its illegal transfer of technology allowing states like Israel and India to acquire plenty of nuclear weapons in stark violation of NPT. And these two countries given their track record of crimes against humanity in Kashmir and Palestine would have no scruples about using these bombs. Reportedly, India is already using its so-called civil nuclear deal with the US to make nukes further eroding the possibility of peace in South Asia. Pakistan under the circumstances has been forced to keep its nuclear capability as a deterrent. Although the US media is reporting that the Obama Administration has taken China on board in its expected move at the UN General Assembly next month, we are quite confident that China will strongly defend our stand as in fact it has been doing in the past.
While bracing up for a diplomatic offensive, we should be extra vigilant particularly after the report about the US plan to attempt snatching our bombs. A message should be officially conveyed to the US about the repercussion of such a move. Our National Command Authority is fully capable of protecting these assets from terrorists and our armed forces are powerful enough to repel any attack by a hostile state.