erm... wha?
In an alternate universe this might seem, oh, I dunno, significant
Obama on Tuesday phoned President Asif Ali Zardari with a view to taking him into confidence over his government’s new Afghan policy assur[ing] President Zardari that the new surge of troops in neighbouring Afghanistan would not have any negative impact on Pakistan as Pakistan had expressed some reservations about the spillover effect from Afghanistan side due to fresh reinforcement of the ISAF forces stationed there.
Yeah. We should reassure them.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ceded command of the country’s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. [enough fissile material to make 30 to 52 nuclear weapons as well as short -and long-range ballistic missiles]
...An increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan might force militants into Pakistan, making the situation “worse and confounded,” Gilani said, according to GEO television. The western nations should evolve a joint strategy against the Taliban on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, he said.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who takes credit for building Pakistan’s nuclear weapons capability, was convicted of selling nuclear bomb technology to North Korea and other countries. Khan publicly confessed in 2004 to running a network that sold machinery for making bomb-grade uranium to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
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