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Nuclear Proliferation: Pardon Or Blackmail?

Nuclear Proliferation: Pardon Or Blackmail?

Author: N.S. Rajaram
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General Musharraf has granted Dr.A.Q. Khan a presidential pardon for taking all the blame for Pakistan's nuclear proliferation activities spread over more than a decade. A few days earlier there were reports that Khan would not go down without a fight and would implicate high government officials including Musharraf. Several points need to be raised.

1. It is a whitewash to claim that Khan (and Pakistan) passed on nuclear 'secrets' to Libya, Iran and N. Korea. What actually changed hands was nuclear materials and production equipment including centrifuges.

2. It is another whitewash to name only the three countries that had already been labeled the 'axis of evil' by the U.S. Government. (This suggests U.S. involvement in deal more of which later.) Of far greater concern is that these things could have ended up in the hands of fundamentalist outfits based in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which for the real axis of evil though supported by the U.S.

3. Many including nuclear experts have expressed the view that proliferation on this scale could not have taken place without the active participation of the Pakistan Army and the Government-- mostly one and the same.

This brings up the next and the most basic point: Pakistani Governments and the Army have always been at the beck and call of the United States, especial the CIA and the State Department. Could such proliferation have taken place without U.S. involvement?

Is this the real reason that Khan was granted presidential pardon with such unseemly haste? And is this the reason that the U.S. came out defending Musharraf and the Pakistan Government immediately after the news of Khan's admission broke out?

The US claims that it knows nothing about Pakistan's (and Musharraf's) role in this massive proliferation exercise. Is it believable that the CIA knew all about Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction but nothing about Pakistan's proliferation that goes back at least to General Zia al-Haq, all of who coincidentally enjoyed U.S. patronage?

Here is an alternative scenario: Khan blackmails Musharraf who in turn blackmails the U.S.

SO, WHAT IS THE REAL AXIS OF EVIL? U.S. -- PAKISTAN -- SAUDI ARABIA?
 


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