do pakistanis know how to use their nukes?
363981
pakis do not know to press that big red botton as it will be labelled in chineese as most of the nuke's parts. so definetely they wont know to use the nuke
400647
Pakistan is Cat on the wall..\nIt has a desire to develop its country to hi fi with the help of US \nBut also need to manage those old islam culture and big shots of some groups who operating most Madderassas..\nAnd most maderassas already became a b-school for some terror organisations...\n\nWith this kind of people, its very difficult to grow..\nEither follow US or your own Maderassas..\n\nBut i pity about people of pakistan..\nthey r the people suffering economically with each decision of the dictatorship..\n\nif they can reduce the tension in indian border areas by controlling terror groups.. they can save a lump sum on defence expenses and can use it for development purposes...\n\nbut certainly Pakistan is not a terrorist country..\n\nA country which is not able to pick among choices...
474243
Good idea, nuke them before they nuke us
700962
Most likely. They are double dealing and they will get burned for that. Look what happened when Afghanistan not only supported but protected the Taliban. Pakistan needs to stop being friendly to terrorists while pretending to support our war on terror. I dont know why they are allowed to have nuclear weapons.
427986
Why should we tell Iran what to do.\nWe should just leave them alone.\nIt's there choice to decide what to use nuclear power for.
1181744
Yeah you are right and they even have the audacity to say things like whoever attacks them or tries to take their nukes out then they will hit India and they say this after four defeats in four wars.India should teach them a lesson and the POK should be recaptured  because it is a part of india and the pakis are illegaly occupying it and using it as a launching pad for terrorist activities against India.Pakistan should not play with India's patience 'cause when it does run out then Pakistan will have no place to hide.
867061
First of all, you have the cart before the horse.  The Pakistani military must be willing to help the US and UK.  What they do accomplish is great, but it's also usually a 1 step forward and two back situation.\n\nSecond, they aren't going ot get technology help until the Pak military, and especially the intelligence service, is actually accountable to civil authority.
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L'opinion: Pakistan needs UN and OIC umbrella to send peace-keeping forces to Iraq\nIraq-Pakistan, Politics, 7/21/2003 \n\nPakistan will only send peace-keeping missions to Iraq under a mandate of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who paid an official visit to Morocco, told Morocan daily "L'opinion."\n\nMusharraf said Pakistan has not yet made a decision regarding a request to send troops to Iraq for a peace-keeping mission, underlining that the final decision should serve Pakistan's national interests and its relations with Islamic countries in the region.\n\nOn the situation in the Middle East, Musharraf said the only means to establish sustainable peace in the region goes through carrying on negotiations that would lead to a comprehensive and fair solution in conformity with United Nations resolutions and based on the legitimate right of the Palestinian people of self-determination.\n\nEvoking Arab Maghreb countries' position on the Kashmir question, the Pakistani president underscored that he is certain that these countries fully understand Pakistan's position concerning its support for a peaceful solution to the conflict.\n\nMusharraf also said Pakistani authorities do not have any new information about where Ussam Bin Laden is, underlining that they don't know for sure if he is dead or still alive. In the same vein, he hoped Pakistani-Afghan relations would be further reinforced on the basis of mutual sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of the other party.\n\nHe added that Pakistan is participating in the re-construction of Afghanistan and that it fully supports the interim administration of president Hamid Karazay.
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Time\n\nThey have already demonstrated that they can enrich uranium.  Encriching it to weapons grade is the same process, but longer.\n\nSome people were guessing it would be a couple years until they could produce a bomb, but in the news the other day their muslim version of george bush boasted it will be sooner, which may or may not be true.
624976
If you must ask short sighted questions, then you can't see beyond the end of your nose.  Iran is a radical country that cannot be trusted.  This is true in any country where Islam rules.  To allow an Islamic state to have nuclear arms to threaten it's neighbors, would surely  draw unpredictable reactions.\n\nAs it is Pakistan has nuclear weapons, fortunately their government has treated this fact responsibly.  Iran, on the other hand, with the president they have today, would not be a candidate for the Nobel Peace prize.  So, your goose and gander example just won't fly.  The fact is, nobody wants Iran to have nuclear power and that includes country's that do and do not themselves, have nuclear bombs.  While you are pointing the finger, point it not just at the US, point it at all civilized nations.\n\nThose same nations do not believe or trust Iran regarding it's intentions for nuclear power.  If they did trust Iran,there would be no issue here.  The fact is, most of the world believes that Iran wants  nuclear weapons capabilities.  So, unless you know more than most nations of the world, perhaps you should think twice before you declare what Iran's intentions are regarding this matter.
429585
Im writing this more as a response to nawab's answere because its pretty clear that paksitan's being spared because of strategic reasons in the subcontinent region. as far nawb's answere is concerned and his reference to pakistan having a "big" stake in the fight against terrorism and that pakis dying and the casualty number being more than 9/11 victims and also the highlight being and which forced me to post this answere that pakistan's "strategy" winning the war agaist U.S.S.R. Im glad that he pointed out the fact that the US supplied money and weapons for the war against soviet union, however american military and the american intelligence is n was not stupid enough to tell pakistan that "ok guys here's the dow n here's the hardware, go and kick ass we know u can do it on ur own while we sit at pentagon n watch the video game". cmon give urself a break and come back to reality for gawd's sake dude, pakistan couldn't even win a war against india and paki military was not even half of what its right now then (not that its any better now) and you think the US IS GONNA THROW ALL THAT MONEY AND military resources on a country like that and depend on its strategies? yeah rt? The war was majorly won because of the afghan terrain and the afghan mujahideen guirellas and also things were not going great at home for the reds and the deterioration of soviet union had started by then. tye strategies were completely provided by the US military ad to an extent the afgahn mujahideen AND NOT BY THE PAKI MILITARY (maybe there were jobless pakis fighting the war just like they are doing right now by joinign different terrorist organisations). The problems that pakistan faces today and why it has to pump in so much of itys own resources in fighting the terrorist is becoz of it s own "policies and stragies" that it followed, which was supporting taliban and other hard core terrorist groups and also turnign a blind eye to their recruitment and other unacceptable activities because pakistan wanted to get abck at india for helping bangladesh break away by cultivating terrorsit camps. entire world knows that in paki mosques  on fridays there are people collecting and donating money openly and freely in the name of islam which is used for terrorist activites. so pakistan is not the victim here its the perpetrator. its the paki guy who was the master mind behind 9/11 and the london bombers were trained in pakistan and also the 7 terrorist caught in london recently were alos trained in apkistan which they admitted. yes there are good people in pakistan but majority of them hate US and the wesatern world(no one knows for sure why the master mind of 9/11 who is a paki palnned it in the fiors place, he had no good reason to do that). they hate the same world were they immigrate to and crawl to all the nook and corners of new york or london or sydney abd then support terrorism from tere. pakistan is a country which is created by spiulling blood and it will get washed away in blood in its own blood. god bless america!!
152085
Ask the Pakistan government
1152581
! CIA Trained Masood and Dostun forces in Afghanistan\nBin Laden recieved aid from both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The CIA Knew he was Hostile and avoided him.\nThe CIA did not operate in the South around Khandahar\nwhere Bin Laden operated. The CIA operated around Jalabad in the East and in the Panjir Valley in the north,\nbut you did not follow the war like I did so you are a clueless individual. Hemectyar recieved aid from IRAN.
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Of course they have, it is a proverb in Middle East, when people want to say something is really full they say it is like Israel Nuke Warehouse.\nIsrael has the most advanced army of the world.\nBut using them for protection is a little funny(Politely saying) idea, imagine if they launch a nuke to Lebonan, all of them will die from radiation.\nIts for power equation and to fear Arabs not for military use.\nIsrael gained enrichment technology many years ago and before that US gave them enriched Uranium and Plotonium they need.
578031
I think it is typical of the American hypocricy when it comes to strategic necessity. They were sure Al Quaida came from Afghanistan so they bombed the hell out of that place, then they believe Iraq trained and supplied them so it became ONE reason for making war on them sanction-strangled poor sods, however the fact that Pakistan is a Muslim country which in some ways supports Al Quaida activities has nothing to do with America's necessity to keep a nuclear partner on its side.\nStrange that they should denounce Iran for developing nuclear potential because it doesn't play ball but its ok for the Pakistanis to have it? America is a strange and powerful creature. Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky are good on this stuff, as well as Robert Kagan.
322510
i dont think that the US is every gonna make the mistake of nuking anyone country unless and until it is unavoidable because they have learnt their lessons from hiroshima and nagasaki.\n\nand moreover they understand that they cant just go about preaching everyone to be responsible with nukes while they themselves do what they feel like.
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He basically stopped at the Pakistan border. The reason other countries want nukes is because we won't mess with a country which has them. Not to mention that they have a huge army and nasty terrain and we aren't exactly popular there already. \n\nPakistani leaders who agree with the US tend to turn up dead. About the only serious moderate left is the President who has already avoided several assasination attempts. Some believe the country is one heartbeat away from another Islamic fundamentalist government. If their leadership allowed or assisted in open major US military action in Pakistan to find Bin Laden, it would create incredible civil turmoil in Pakistan. Even their moderates might find it intolerable to have American troops running over their soil at will. Therefore having failed to get Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Bush could no longer go in serious pursuit of Bin Laden without risking war with Pakistan, a far more difficult proposition indeed than smacking Iraq around. So he let Bin Laden go basically with a lame *cooperative* effort for show with Pakistan. \n\nImagine if say 50 billion of the money wasted on getting our brave soldiers killed in Iraq had been spent on developing covert action to get Bin Laden, quietly, sneakily, with bribery, blackmail, bounty, with every manner of spy, special forces, ninja, planetary alignment, disinformation, disguise, deception, trickery, secret spy weapons, and whatever else it took to dig out the rat. Had Bush kept the target in focus at any cost and demanded the resources to do so, and if he had perhaps applied more intelligent tactics than letting butt-ignorant dirtball local warlords jack us around, Bin Laden would have been long since dead and I bet we would have gotten change back from the 50. But I digress.  \n\nWith Iraq, Bush still got to show America that he was attacking *something* after 9/11 besides killing sheep on a bunch of mountains. At that time post 9/11, public anger over the attack was such that just about any violent response by a leadership willing to exploit a huge collective need to kick the dog was acceptable if it could be connected to 9/11. It was so much easier to just blow the crap out of everything to make people happy than it was to be a real leader and craft a controlled, efficient, focused,and effective response. Now we ultimately will have a trillion dollar albatross around our children's necks instead. \n\nBut I knew long before 9/11 that nobody was going to get that kind of stand up leadership from Bush. And all that noise in Iraq made people forget who really attacked us in the first place. When the country began to come up out of its collective (but understandable) frenzy and look around, face all bloody, Bin Laden had long since skated away.    \n\nM\n\nDon't blame me, I never voted for him. Or his daddy.