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By Allabaksh
Pakistan must resist from acting out its fantasies in the international arena especially when its conduct has been reprehensible and in contravention of all norms promulgated by the international community for a just and fair global order.
The country’s latest attempt to run a malicious, and malafide, campaign against India’s bid for the membership of NSG club fits into this tiresome pattern. Pakistani leaders have been shouting from their rooftops that their country deserved to be in the exclusive Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and not India. They have been painting India with a black tar, making unsubstantiated and uncalled for allegations.
The problem with the Pakistani leaders is that they all suffer from a deadly cocktail of dangerously high level of paranoia and bravado along with a remarkable tendency to fabricate facts. They also think that the world is too eager to accept their badly mashed up arguments and therefore indulge in the most bizarre theatre of absurdity on the global arena.
Whatever antics they play, the world is no longer blind to what Pakistan has been doing. Pakistan, now the world knows, is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Pakistan is a terrorist sponsoring terrorist. Pakistan has indulged, as a state, in acts of terrorism against neigbouring countries. Pakistan has even carried out terrorist attacks against its biggest ally, the US in Afghanistan.
But more critical is the fact that Pakistan is a country with the fastest growing stockpile of nuclear weapons and materials which no one has a good count of. Pakistan is also the country which was leading, till the US came down on it, a global nuclear blackmarket, selling and buying nuclear materials and equipment from rogue suppliers. Pakistan is known to have supplied nuclear know-how and materials to the rogue North Korea. It has given similar help to Libya and is known to have build a nuclear arsenal for Saudi Arabia. The world is still to know the depth of Pakistan’s nuclear corporate empire.
The fact which must not be lost on the international community is that much of what happens in Pakistan’s nuclear industry is hardly known---the nuclear development and trade remains a closely guarded secret. For instance, no one is really sure of the extent of cooperation between China and Pakistan. Or for that matter, between Pakistan and other Muslim, read Sunni, countries. Pakistan therefore must allow international monitors to inspect its nuclear installations before making a bid for the NSG membership.
Pakistan is also a country which is openly making tactical nuclear missiles and issuing public threats to India of its use in case of any eventuality. It today has a sizeable reserve of such missiles which has already raised the level of threats to the people of the region. Pakistan must stop further production of such missiles and publish a no-first use policy for such weapons which have the potential of stoking a normal conflict situation to a highly volatile nuclear conflagration.
When Mr Sartaz Aziz, advisor to Prime Minister, accused India of laxity in ensuring the safety of nuclear installations, he chose not to remember that it was in his country that nuclear installations were attacked by terrorists, not once but quite a few times. He would recollect the attacks on Wah, Mehran naval air base and other key nuclear installations in the recent past and realise that it was his country which faced maximum nuclear threat than any other in the world.
Mr Aziz, otherwise an experienced diplomat, should know that it is pointless in promoting his country for the NSG membership without ensuring the safety of the nuclear materials in the country and keeping terrorists at bay. He knows very well that his country has failed on both counts and has no claim on the membership.
The best option for Pakistan would be not to create stumbling blocks for India’s legitimate bid for the NSG membership. Not that Pakistan would be effective in doing so, which it is bent upon doing, but such an act would certainly put an end to the renewed attempts to strengthen the relationship between India and Pakistan. Pakistan’s campaign against India’s bid is certainly harming the interests of people of both countries who are eagerly, and often desperately, searching for small anchors to rebuild peace and stability in the region.
(The writer is a Free lance journalist based in Kashmir)
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