By. Adnan Shaukat
As Pakistan has been battling Taliban forces in tribal areas to the west long the Afghan border, the government of Zardari the widow of miss Bhutto (assissanated ex-prime minister) has agreed to establish Islamic courts that will have presendence of the local population. Senior American officals have been concerned since the Taliban gained a strong-hold 60 miles away from the capital, and 100 miles north of Pakistan's nuclear installations.
American's are worried that Pakistan has been blanketing the issue directly, and not releasing the wear about of the weapons, amid fears that they don't know if the $ 100 million dollars set aside to upgrade there facilities been used properly.
Among other rhetoric, Pakistan Army officals are calling it "Overblown" concerns. Pakistan has assured the proper authorities that the weapons are under tight control as they always have been, and that the weapon systems are spread throughout the country. Thus, even if one aspect of the system is compromised none can use the nuclear weapons.
(I find this funny, cause so far in Pakistan's nuclear history and amid going through so much turm-oil. Pakistan itself has never lost control of its weapons, or components, unlike how the nuclear components belonging to U.S. nuclear weapons were shipped to Taiwan or how U.S Air Force flown them "accidently" half way across the U.S.. I believe U.S. and Co. needs to focus on there own security besides others who have a much better track-record compared to the past-Cold War era, where weapons were lost in European countries, etc.)
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