And, of course, Iran - a nation you’d like to see attacked - just happens to be eviller or crazier than everyone else. They, and they alone are going to destroy themselves by handing out nukes to people they can’t control.
Of course, you do realize that by your own logic we should destroy your own Israel while we’re at it. After all, you just might to hand out nukes to terrorists as well. Of course, we have no evidence you will, but according to you the mere possibility is justification - nay, an obligation - for attack.
Actually Karachi is the financial capital of Pakistan. The Industry is based in the North of Punjab, cities like Sialkot, Gujarawala, Gujarat and Faisalabad (known locally as “Manchesterabad”). Islamabad was made mainly because it is at the confluence of three regions, the Frontier, kashmir and the Punjab, a neutral place.
2)Pakistan always has had control, pretty vicious control over the NW Territories. In FATA (which incidentally is disticnt from the North West Frontier Province), instead of the normal Pakistan Penal Code*, a different statute called the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) was inforce. FCR divided the area up into various tribes, each under (a government appointed “Chief” or Malik). The principal under which the territory operated was broadly “collective responsibility” and “collective punishment”, each tribe and its malik was responsible for keeping peace iand order in its area. When there was a “distrubance” the political agent (the federal governments representative in that area) would tell the malik who amongst the tribe had “misbehaved” and “request” him to punish the offender in accordance with tribal traditions. If the “request” was not acted upon, action would be taken against the entire tribe.
As you can imagine the punishments were to put it mildly, barbaric, whipping, mutilations etc. ISince independance, hundreds of thousand of tribals have moved to other parts of Pakistan (my own family included) and the prevailing situation led to great outrage and protests.I
4)In a series of cases in the late 1990’s the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared first the individual punishments then the entire system to be unconstitutional. This resulted in the whole system pretty much collapsing, since the Political Agent could no longer deal with the tribes as he had done before, and no alternative system had been setup. As it was this occurred at about the same time as 9-11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, literally millions of refugees came across the border and we are where we are.
*Civil law of Pakistan always applied, many tribes are economically active, running various fleets of transport trucks.
“Pakistan has no interest in selling it’s nukes. Libya tried to buy nukes and was told to “Go make your own.” Other nations who tried this got similar rebuffs. These nukes are a matter of pride to Pakistan as the “Islamic Bomb” makes Pakistan the leader in the Islamic world, at least military. A place it wouldn’t have without the weapon.”
A Q Khan, the father of the Pakistani nuclear weapon sold technology to Libya, Iran, and North Korea, was finally convicted and sentenced to house arrest, and released of that about a couple of months ago.
Iran, being Shi’a, has nothing to do with Al Qaeda who are Sunni. I highly doubt Iran is the path for an AQ weapon. Much more likely Pakistan or one of the former Soviet states.
He sold centrifuges, specifically first generation ones which had been designed as prototypes, not weapons or weapons design to which he had no access anyway.
It was unaurthorised, the US Manhatten Projects had several scientists who sold tech to the USSR.
The areas thats now constituite ,Pakistan has had something like 2500 years of experience of agression from Persia/Iran, last thing Pakistan wants is a nuclear Iran.