Bharat Rakshak

Acharya, If you want to understand the American mind vis a vis India, it is one of the best books. in the context of Of particular interest to India is the following statement by Cohen: "For some (Pakistanis), Kashmir is also the key to unravelling India. If India gave up Kashmir, then Indian ...

It was never Pakistan's fault you see: In 1990, the United States was compelled to stop the sale of F-16 planes to Pakistan because of its nuclear activities. Washington waged a campaign to get other nations not to sell anything that could deliver weapons, especially nuclear bombs. But according to ...

Sorry to be crass but perhaps Mush has a girlfriend in Karachi.

Re Dawood
Just fyi for possible timeline purposes, Dawood Ibrahim was put on the State Department's terrorist supporter list on October 16, 2003.

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/texts/03101603.htm

I have heard Hamid Gul say more than once on Pakistani TV(paraphrasing) "Umrika under se khokhla ho chuka hai aur iskey dhanchey key ghirney mein der nahin " - in other words, Umrika has become hollow from inside and its collapse is not far off. This appears to be a view which has some cur...

Ms Nasim GHQ Zehra spelling out the party line: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2004-daily/12-02-2004/oped/o1.htm On the nature of proliferation from Pakistan, according to US accounts proliferation from Pakistani sources includes transporting components of old models of centrifuges used earlier by Pa...

Is it this one? http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4201930/ U.S. program to protect Pakistan's arsenal Last month, President hinted at the covert cooperation, “Yes, they are secure,... and that’s important.” It’s called the U.S. Liaison Committee: American nuclear experts spending millions to safeguard Pakista...

TSJones Irrespective of which ridge over the civilisational divide you inhabit, the cussing preferences appear to be curiously similar. Same species, afterall. btw, do you happen to see any connection between $2 billion of American taxpayer money and houris in paradise becoming a USP among AQ Khan's...

Just a couple of questions. 1. If Pakistan had really wanted to give nuclear technology to Muslim countries, why didn't it do so wholeheartedly, instead of being half-hearted and putting these countries through long development cycles? (Doesnot sound like ideological committment from either Pakistan...

According to the western media(just heard it on CNN World News eg), Mushy was confronted with loads of damning evidence and ultimatums wrt Khan and proliferation in October 2003 during this visit of Amritraj: http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/conflict/03100602.htm Mushy had this harrowing experien...

Originally posted by Sai Krshna:

Wonder, they might get latest blocks of F-16s/18s/JSFs.

It would be interesting to see how they are to match our might!.. good going to ruin pakis economy.

Not if it is American taxpayer money.

Re: the press conference Mushy has a point. If the Pakistani domestic press hadn't created quite such a hullabaloo, the Libyan/Iranian revelations would have been a quiet matter between Mushy and unkil's state dept. leaving only BRites and the odd Indian columnist fuming at the sophistry of it all. ...

Re translation of Mushy's press conference:
Amazing effort. Great job, folks!

ZA Bhutto's second wife Nusrat(Benazir's mother) was born Iranian.

One fall guy doesnot a nukenood regime make. Nothing stops China from continuing to supply Pakistan with nukes on demand, esp when the US government and its obedient media have been so obliging as to provide 100% impervious cover. IMO, India should start making noises about the Chinese connection to...

Report from December 2002 http://www.japantoday.com/gidx/news244417.html TOKYO — North Korea in 1998 transported Pakistan-supplied equipment for its clandestine nuclear weapons program in the coffin of the murdered wife of a North Korean diplomat to Islamabad, a major Japanese daily reported Sunday....

Also posted on Pakistan News thread: M. Ziauddin, Editor, Dawn on World Today, PTV Prime, 01/13/04 interviewed on phone from Karachi said that "Pakistani Army kept 24-hr watch on nuclear scientists. In waking hours, a brigadier constantly accompanied each of the top scientists, a officer of les...

IMO, this episode may have taken away the "rhetorical" edge from US's use of sanctions as part of the missile-nuke control regime. Suppose, for example, India goes ahead with "bigger and better" missile development and US threatens to impose sanctions on India to restrain it. Ind...

In my view, in common with people with sources in the Pakistani defence establishment like Mansoor Ijaz, the US has known all along what was going on. This pious outrage is purely made-on-order. India for example, never chose to rely on the US Congress/US President's views of Pakistan's nuclear weap...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here is Congressional testimony from October 1987. http://www.nci.org/t/t102287.htm In addition, failure to follow a forceful nonproliferation policy regarding Pakistan has potential significant, adverse consequences outside the region. Developmen...