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Islam and the West

Will US grab Pakistan’s nuclear weapons?

A Daily Times, Lahore, Editorial

This statement is factually wrong because Pakistan does not have deployed nuclear weapons and its missiles do not have the range to strike Israel. It is amazing that Mr Biden should have delivered this gaffe, billed as he is as a foreign policy expert. In any case, his statement is going to play in favour of those in Pakistan who say that the war against terrorism is not Pakistan’s war and that the US is less interested in fighting Al Qaeda than in destroying Pakistan’s nuclear capability. His comment on the growth of terrorism in Pakistan draws on the lack of support by the media — “it is not Pakistan’s war” — to the Pakistan army as it fights terrorists in the Tribal Areas. Of course Mr Biden didn’t say he did not believe Prime Minister Gilani when the latter said recently that terrorists in the Tribal Areas were training foreigners on Pakistani territory and that these elements could attack the United States. In fact, the Biden remark reflects the confidence he has in the democratic order now in place in Pakistan. Another government “backgrounder” from Pakistan says that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are “not different entities but one consolidated structure” planning to transform Pakistan into an Al Qaeda state.

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