They've always claimed, since PM Bhutto in 70's who started the Paki nuke program, that it was to create and Islamic bomb to counter the Christian, Jewish and then Hindu bombs.
Bhutto was nominally a progressive secularist, but virtually mad with his delusions of islamic grandeur and the desire to show his Arab masters how islamic he could be in kowtowing to them.
His duaghter continued the program, even travelling to NKorea; established the taliban and looked the other way at Khan's games.
But since she talks the talk and a muslim leader, the media fawns all over her. Didja see Benazir on Greta? Jeez, Greta, just cut the lovefest short and simply staart by licking her shoes.
I saw this yesterday...worth a thread?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/488670.cms 'Pak Army never controlled nukes'
PTI[ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2004 10:36:44 PM ]
LONDON: Former Chief of the Pakistani army, General Mirza Aslam Beg , said the army has "never been in control" of Pakistan's nuclear programme, except in times of military rule.
Participating in BBC World's Hardtalk Pakistan programme, Gen Beg insisted that he knew nothing of the leaking of nuclear secrets by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan , despite conceding that information was being passed to other nations while he was in charge of the army between 1988 and 1991.
Asked on what basis he was stating that he knew nothing of Dr Khan's activities, Gen Beg said: "A Q Khan had never been answerable to the army chiefs, whether it was me or the four army chiefs that had come after me."
Asked who was controlling the nuclear programme at the time he was the Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Beg said: "That was the Chief Executive, Benazir Bhutto . The then President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who had been part of the programme since 1976 when Z A Bhutto who initially initiated it and he remained with the programme until 1992, when he retired.
Beg said that the current international anti- proliferation measures were unfair to Muslim countries.
"Yes, it is duplicity, heartburn and humiliation of the Muslim world. What right does Israel have to have such capability, having more than 400 nuclear warheads when their neighbours don't pose any threat to them?," he asked.
Describing Israel as a threat to the entire region, he said Israel's neighbours should be allowed to own nuclear weapons.
"They have a right to have the capabilities to defend themselves and their national interests," he said.