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Security concerns regarding Pakistan to be expressed at US-India meet | The US can expect some plain speaking from the Indian delegation regarding Pakistan and the blanket cheque that the super power seems to be giving India's South Asian neighbour.
Sources said that India will express its concerns regarding the security of Pakistan's
nuclear arsenal in view of the deteriorating law and order situation in that country.
This will come up during talks that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will
have with her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna and Indian National Security Advisor
M.K. Narayanan. Stephen Hadley, an arms control expert who served as National
Security Adviser to former U.S. President George W. Bush, said: "There is a lot
of concern about what happens to Pakistan's nuclear weapons if the government
fragments in some way." Hadley, who now advises the United States Institute of
Peace, a Washington-based think-tank, spoke at a three day international security
conference in Halifax, where the worsening insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan
was discussed by defence ministers, academics and military leaders from the Americas,
Asia and Europe. The Indian Government is not as confident as the US Government
about whether Pakistan's nuclear weapons are safely in the control of its civilian
government or whether rogue elements in the Pakistan Army or the intelligence
agency ISI could get hold of them. Pakistan is said to have about 60 to 80 nuclear
weapons and sources said that information sharing on such crucial matters will
be part of the discussions over the next three days. The US State Department while
aware that the situation in Pakistan is precarious will not openly admit that
its problem managing what is happening in Pakistan. Maybe just a shade better
than what is happening in Afghanistan. The Indian security top brass will also
express its concern this week about the transfer of arms and ammunition and surveillance
equipment to Pakistan, which might be used against India instead of the war against
the Taliban. |
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