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Pakistan's Demands

Now that the U.S. Senate has given its backing to the deal reached between the United States and India to enable nuclear exports to be shipped to India to help that giant country modernize its existing nuclear power stations to more adequately provide the energy it requires to aid its burgeoning economy, its hostile, nuclear-owning neighbour Pakistan, insists that it too must be considered for a like agreement.

As if. Stable, democratic India, doing its utmost to administer its unwieldy, disparate population through a firm commitment to the democratic process presents no potential for danger to its neighbours nor to the world at large. India has monumental problems it must deal with constantly, not the least of which is how best to govern justly in a manner that will bring prosperity to all its constituents.

Pakistan has been anything but a moderately-inclined, friendly neighbour. It isn't just the dispute with India over ownership of Kashmir, but the fact that Pakistan has consistently encouraged fundamentalist Islamists to strike at Indian interests, to commit atrocities, killing thousands of innocent people. While India is a model of a rational and stable democracy, Pakistan teeters on the verge of civil collapse.

After having so long given encouragement and refuge to militant Islamists, content to permit them to do whatever they wished on foreign soil, so long as they behaved within Pakistan's geography, Pakistan, that perennially unsettled country, proud possessor of nuclear armament technology now finds itself embattled on its own soil, by Islamist jihadists whose vision of world domination is inclusive of Pakistan.

Because of Pakistan's traditional and malicious ill-will toward India, terrorist attacks there are more numerous, more deadly than any other country in the area, with the exception of Iraq. India, as a successful state, stands alone beside its failed neighbour-states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. It is in the world's best interests, not only India's, to help her succeed.

It is most certainly not in any country's best interests to aid Pakistan in further developing its nuclear technology. Pakistan is close to economic collapse, just as it is edging ever closer to political-social collapse. It has no use for joining a nuclear non-proliferation treaty; in fact it has gone out of its way through the auspices of its rogue nuclear scientists, to spread nuclear technology.

Pakistan, so utterly dependent on the millions of aid dollars it gets from the United States, through portraying itself as an ally in the war on terror, insists it too should be viewed by the international community for agreements to enable it to overhaul its power stations. "Now, Pakistan also has the right to demand a civilian nuclear agreement with America", declared Pakistan's prime minister.

Not bloody likely, old chap, unless the world goes utterly insane and in its demented state might feel comfortable in hastening its own demise. Thanks to the Pakistan succession of governments that saw nothing amiss in permitting Saudi-funded madrasses to operate in the country, churning out legions of disaffected and brutal Islamists, Britain sees its internal threats reaching 'critical' levels.

Terror cells in that country, so closely aligned with the United States, and as such seen as ripe for revenge by jihadists have it on their own security authority that there are imminent threats to British security and life. "Al-Qaeda's core exists on the Afghan-Pakistan border", recounts a British intelligence source.

"The arrangement of people changes at a frighteningly rapid pace, but they have enough people to replace them and there are people who are looking at us and at external operations, some at this country in particular. We are not chasing shadows. They are potential threats to security and life. Police and the security network are operating at full capacity."

India, another country allied to the British Empire, could never be thought a threat to Great Britain or any other country. Britain's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre is firm in the belief that another attack remains a strong possibility. They maintain close watch on some 200 networks across Britain, while monitoring communications on the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Britain's Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism is studying means by which it may be possible to persuade impressionable young British Pakistanis from radicalization. Give aid and succour to a country which has been incapable of honouring its stated commitments to its purported allies? Which has encouraged the existence and the activities of Islamists? Which now teeters on the precipice of civil war?

When was the last time anyone saw elephants fly?

Labels: Political Realities, Terrorism, World News

posted by Pieface @ Friday, October 03, 2008