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| Pak threatens to nuke fissile treaty |
| 2008-07-27 |
| Pakistan has threatened to torpedo negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty if the international community approves a unique civil nuclear cooperation initiative with India. Shahbaz, Pakistan's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that if the IAEA approves a draft safeguards agreement with India, and nuclear sanctions are lifted against New Delhi, then this would nip in the bud upcoming talks on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT). He told Nucleonics Week, a journal tracking global nuclear issues, that the IAEA and Nuclear Suppliers Group, a club that regulates nuclear commerce, “can say good-bye to it (the FMCT)”. The fissile material cut-off treaty has been in the works for years, with Pakistan and India being among those who had objections to the principles behind commencing talks on curtailing the production of material which can be used to produce nuclear bombs. He said Pakistan's objections to the civil nuclear tango with India was its “last chance” to ensure that New Delhi doesn't desert the league both countries have been in since their nuclear explosions in May 1998. It's evident that Pakistan's last-ditch efforts to queer the pitch for India's civil nuclear initiative is being driven by the fact that the rest of the world is loath to extend a similar deal to Islamabad. India is keeping up the diplomatic momentum on pushing its nuclear deal with NSG members. Science & Technology Minister Kapil Sibal, who just returned from Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, leaves for Finland and Sweden on Saturday night. “It should be all right,” Sibal told HT on Saturday afternoon when asked about the signals received from interlocutors in the three countries he has visited. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 Ya know, I really don't MIND the US doing a one-up on the Mongols in Pakistan, and "pulic opinion" can go where it belongs. When it's time to get people's undivided attention is before you reach the point where you don't want to leave any survivors. We've failed to do that, and it's hurting us. Time to take off the gloves, roll up the shirt-sleeves, grab an axe in both hands, and start laying about us with a vengence. Pakistan is the source of far too much trouble to put up with any longer. I'm sure India and Pakistan can do a bang-up job of governing whatever population is left after we finish. In the meantime, gather together a dozen or so CB battalions, and pave a new road to Kabul - say, through Quetta. If anybody gets in the way, napalm them into ashes and flush the ashes. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-27 21:59 |
| #5 TW, Someday we'll find out that's a major part of the reason behind stupid W's rapproachment with India. If we ever do go into Pakistan it will be to clear a path for the indians to Shermanize the place. Only somehow I doubt the Indians will be able to find a kinder, gentler leader like Uncle Billy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-07-27 17:13 |
| #4 a ABM system and Raptors for India? We need to refocus the Paks on the fact that they are only significant allies now for the routes we need for transport, and if those routes were clear of annoying eye-rolling people and militants and not very irradiated, that might be a better situation. Time to slap the Paks with the fact that they haven't beaten teh Indians in teh past, they can't beat the Indians now and if we help the Indians out of pique, they're toast for the forseeable future, even if they use their nukes. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-27 15:19 |
| #3 Alternatively, what hold do we have over the Pakistanis, besides the threat of Arc-lighting the entire country, then giving the rubble to Afghanistan to colonize? (Which I can't imagine we'd actually threaten, let alone do.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-27 14:13 |
| #2 And supply the boys in Afghanistan how? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-07-27 12:47 |
| #1 Just cut aid to Pakistan now. Don't give them the F-16 targeting do-dads either. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-27 12:08 |