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Post by JP5 on Jul 30, 2013 5:04:33 GMT
Breaking......apparently more than 240 bad guys escaped. "Taliban militants wearing police uniform have launched an assault on a prison in Pakistan, with an official saying more than 240 prisoners escaped. The attack on the jail in the north-western town of Dera Ismail Khan began with several explosions at around midnight on Monday. Gunmen then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns, police chief Sohail Khalid said. The prison houses hundreds of Taliban and militants from banned groups. The town's civil commissioner Mushtaq Jadoon said that more than 240 prisoners had escaped, six of whom were later re-arrested by police." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23493323 |
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Post by ShivaTD on Jul 30, 2013 13:59:36 GMT
The implied complicity of the government of Pakistan with the US drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of innocent Palestinians has lead to an upsurge in the support of the Pakistani Taliban over the last couple of years. The US violating the sovereignty of Pakistanis with drone attacks has increased the activities of the Pakistan Taliban and we should not be surprised by it.
Perhaps the core of the problem is that the United States, as a leading member of the NPT, has not used it's authority in a non-political manner. The "threat" of Pakistan is the nuclear weapons it has. If the US took it's responsibilities related to the NPT seriously we would have been addressing the possession of nuclear weapons by any nation that is not authorized to have them under the NPT. We've taken action against N Korea by imposing draconian economic sanctions because N Korea has nuclear weapons. We've even imposed draconian economic sanctions against Iran that doesn't have nuclear weapons but that might be secretly trying to create them. The NPT was even effective in forcing S Africa to dismantle it's nuclear arsenal in the past.
What the US and the NPT hasn't done is impose economic sanctions on the other rogue nuclear weapon nations because of political bias by the United States. It would be mutually beneficial for both India and Pakistan to both dismantle their nuclear weapons. It would be beneficial for Israel to dismantle it's nuclear weapons because Iran has already stated it will accept any nuclear weapon "inspections" that Israel would allow. The "Arab" nations have already stated that Israel's possession of nuclear weapons rationalizes the development of nuclear weapons by other nations in the Middle East and it's the Arab nations that proposed the WMD Free Middle East treaty.
If the United Nation Security Council, which is the enforcement arm of the NPT, imposed economic sanctions against the rogue nuclear weapon nations uniformly then India, Pakistan, and Israel would be forced to dismantle their nuclear weapons or face an economic existence like N Korea. Getting rid of the nuclear weapons in both India and Pakistan is what's important because if it wasn't for Pakistan having nuclear weapons there isn't any reason for the US drone strikes in Pakistan that has lead to a very large increase in the support and activities of the Pakistan Taliban.
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