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Nuke rebuke: US told to keep hands off Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Published: November 14, 2011
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan sought a firm guarantee from the US that its nuclear arsenal is secure during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Islamabad last month, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Officials familiar with Clinton’s meetings with Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders said that concerns about the safety of the country’s nuclear stockpile was part of discussions at all levels. “They [the Americans] expressed their point of view and we presented ours … what we asked for was that there shouldn’t be any aggression or doubts about our nuclear programme,” one of the officials said.
Though it isn’t known how the US responded to Pakistan’s concerns, officials said Islamabad made it clear to Clinton that its cooperation with Washington in the war on terror, especially to ‘convince’ the Afghan Taliban to join peace talks, was linked to its nuclear demand.
There have always been concerns about the possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremists but Islamabad rejects these fears, saying it has foolproof security and safety mechanisms in place.
Officials said the issue came up during the meeting of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Clinton. The prime minister’s press secretary Akram Shaheedi, however, said the issue wasn’t discussed. “Not at all,” was his terse answer when approached to confirm or deny this. A foreign office spokeswoman refused to offer any comment as well.
But the official insisted that the safety of the nuclear programme was one of the major conditions of Islamabad’s future cooperation with the US. In return, the official added, Pakistan had agreed to ‘neutralise’ the Haqqani network to the extent that it agrees to open negotiations with the US.
The question of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons has been at the forefront recently after an article in US magazine The Atlantic raised fears about the way the weapons are transported and claimed that the US had prepared missions to secure the weapons. The article was dismissed by the foreign ministry as “pure fiction”.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2011.
 
The west just wants to denuclearize Pakistan.

Its all too obvious. Why are the west so obsessed with Pakistan's nuclear weapons?
 
If our military establishment just thinks that we're gonna tell US to keep away and they will obey us; they are mistaken. They are just cooperating because of this WOT. Once they are out of Afghanistan, they will start their dirty games once again...
 
No body is interested in poking nose. Pakistan should understand that the reason there's a concern about its nuclear arsenals is because of the huge number of terrorists residing in Pakistan. No body said these things before some years. Think peacefully, why there's no concern about India's or China's nuclear arsenals? You would get the answer if you're smart.
 
Why is Pakistan so perturbed about a supposed American action to take out its nukes? The US of A doesn't have a hope in hell to launch a smash-and-grab operation to destroy Pakistan's nukes. They just don't have the capability. Osama was a different ball game altogether.

In other words, this can never happen! Just a lot of hot air by the Americans to pressurise Pakistan to do its bidding!
 
Why is Pakistan so perturbed about a supposed American action to take out its nukes? The US of A doesn't have a hope in hell to launch a smash-and-grab operation to destroy Pakistan's nukes. They just don't have the capability. Osama was a different ball game altogether.

In other words, this can never happen! Just a lot of hot air by the Americans to pressurise Pakistan to do its bidding!

They do have the capability. They have a contingency plan to secure the nukes in any case that it may become a "threat" to the US. Whether it's because they've been "stolen" by terrorist, or if they just feel like it..
 
No body is interested in poking nose. Pakistan should understand that the reason there's a concern about its nuclear arsenals is because of the huge number of terrorists residing in Pakistan. No body said these things before some years. Think peacefully, why there's no concern about India's or China's nuclear arsenals? You would get the answer if you're smart.

Stop being foolish. Terrorists are everywhere. There will always be people who will hate America.

The whole war on terrorism was idiotic to begin with.
 
They do have the capability. They have a contingency plan to secure the nukes in any case that it may become a "threat" to the US. Whether it's because they've been "stolen" by terrorist, or if they just feel like it..
Securing 100 nukes by a commando operation ? You must be kidding ...
 
In return, the official added, Pakistan had agreed to ‘neutralise’ the Haqqani network to the extent that it agrees to open negotiations with the US.[/B.


I am suppriesed no one seems to want to coment about this part. If the article can be belived isnt this an admision that Pakistan controls or can control if it wishes the Haqqani's?
 
no cooperation should be given to ANYBODY until they firmly accept once and for all that they have no locus-standi over our nuclear program; as long as other countries (including those who have also not signed the NPT) continue to maintain arsenals, we are MORE than within our right to have our own

it's very arrogant for these countries to talk about nuclear safety when some of these countries have not only had nuclear-related accidents and miscalculations --but have even resorted to the USE of nuclear weapons


Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is safe and sound. Any attempt to sabotage or target Pakistan's program will be analogous to a declaration of war, and will be responded to with brutality.
 

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