| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| India wants Pakistan declared terror state |
| 2009-02-08 |
| India on Saturday said the international community should consider declaring Pakistan a terrorist state in light of the country's release of a scientist who sold nuclear secrets around the globe. If Pakistain's not a terrorist state there ain't no sech thing... "It is time for the international community to think whether to declare Pakistan a terrorist country," Manish Tewari, the ruling Congress party spokesman said in New Delhi, in reference to the end from house arrest of Pakistani nuclear Abdul Qadeer Khan. Omar Saeed Sheikh's not dead yet, either. My guess is he's gonna die of old age. And he's not very old now. Khan, the man at the centre of the world' most serious nuclear proliferation scandal, was released on Friday after five years of house arrest. Just about the time Bush left office, plus a few days for paperwork. Revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, he confessed to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya in 2004. He was immediately pardoned by the government, although his movements were restricted. It wasn't Dr. Strangelove selling the nuke secrets. It was the Pak government. Most of us know that, and most of us who don't have guessed it. India's Congress party, which faces election in April, where security is likely to be a major voting issue, said Khan's release was a serious security concern. "Defending him proves Pakistan as not only an exporter of terrorism, but has also given rise to doubts of certain countries, including (United States) America, that nuclear weapons could go into the hands of terrorists," Tiwari told reporters. We're not dumb enough -- or weren't, until Bush left office -- to assume that Dr. Strangelove was the only one with an interest in seeing San Diego or Baltimore or even Ann Arbor evaporated. Binny had his own resident nuke scientists, who were coincidentally Paks, when he decamped from Afghanistan. Earlier, the Indian army chief said militant camps in Pakistan were thriving and had increased in the past year, as India put pressure on Islamabad to bring militants behind last November's attacks in Mumbai to justice. "I would not talk about the numbers specifically right now...but infrastructure is existing and active," General Deepak Kapoor told the Press Trust of India (PTI). I regard those camps as distinctly unfriendly acts, regardless of who's in power in the Land of the Pure. India has said the militant attack on its financial capital Mumbai November last year, in which 179 people were killed, was planned from a camp in Pakistan. Relations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have been strained since then, with India saying Pakistan was not doing enough to rein in militants. Actually, they were obfuscating and blustering just as hard as they could, and they have no intention of reining in their militants. Their militants are why they exist. Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said this week Pakistan's main spy agency was linked to planners of the Mumbai attacks. We knew that. They hardly even make an effort to hide the fact anymore. Pakistan has denied any involvement by state agencies ... at which point their collective lips fell off... and said it was investigating a dossier of information from India, to which it will reply next week. ... with still more bluster, obfuscation, and outright lies. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I'll bet the U.S. votes "present". |
| Posted by: DoDo 2009-02-08 10:26 |
| #2 How about India declaring Pakistan as a terror state? The trade routes across the LOC are still open. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-02-08 09:26 |
| #1 Appeals to "International Community", India has a long way to go. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-08 05:32 |