A combustive mix
James Forsyth 2:12pm
With the expenses scandal so dominating the news, it is easy to forget that there are other stories going on. Today’s New York Times fronts with a piece on how Pakistan is even now increasing its nuclear arsenal; proof that the Pakistani state still hasn’t switched its priorities from an arms race with India to dealing with its own insurgency. There is also an obvious risk that the more nuclear weapons Pakistan has, the more likely it is—given that we know that Pakistan’s nuclear programme has been penetrated in the past—that a nuclear weapon will fall into the wrong hands. Bruce Riedel, who ran Obama’s review of Afghanistan and Pakistan policy, sums up the situation thus:
Not a good combination.Pakistan “has more terrorists per square mile than anyplace else on earth, and it has a nuclear weapons program that is growing faster than anyplace else on earth.”
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Forlornehope
May 18th, 2009 2:57pm Report this commentMore terrorists per square mile than West Yorkshire?
bill
May 18th, 2009 4:29pm Report this commenthow can such an uncheckable statistic be true, have the surveyors counted all the terorists? Or surveyed every square mile on Earth? The Square Mile could have more terrorists for all they know, these people don't advertise their "terrorist" credentials.
Herbert Thornton
May 18th, 2009 4:38pm Report this commentForlornehope - not just that, but maybe fewer terrorist nukes per square mile than West Yorkshire?
Verity
May 18th, 2009 5:48pm Report this commentIndia is the regional power and should contain this situation by whatever means it judges appropriate to the threat.
Alf Tupper
May 18th, 2009 8:21pm Report this commentForlornehope & Herbert T.
It isn't called Khalifax for nothing you know.
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