At a time when US President Joe Biden’s words put the spotlight on Pakistan as “the most dangerous nation in the world”, Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities are also occupying a position of significance and creating anxieties for various major global powers.
US President Biden at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reception in Los Angeles (California), during which he berated both China and Russia, said, “This is a guy (Xi Jinping) who understands what he wants but has an enormous, enormous array of problems. How do we handle that? How do we handle that relative to what’s going on in Russia? And what I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world: Pakistan. “Nuclear weapons without any cohesion.” Pakistan’s government, the Taliban, its various outfits in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and other jihadist groups inside Pakistan have created a worry over the nuclear weaponry falling into terrorist hands, reported Global Strat View.
Pakistan supports the Taliban covertly. The world believes that Pakistan’s nuclear programme remains a threat to being stolen by terrorist organizations. Afghanistan quickly fell into the Taliban’s extremist clutches last August, after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghan soil.
The political upheaval in Afghanistan also has regional repercussions, especially for those in neighboring Pakistan. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s continued production of fissile material and subsequent weapons, as well as the potential deployment of more tactical nuclear weapons, only makes the increasing possibility of the misuse of these materials more glaring and plausible, reported Global Strat View.
A London-based Pakistani journalist, Farooq Sulehria, said, “The Talibanization of the Pakistan military is something we can’t overlook. What if there was an internal Taliban takeover of the nuclear assets? “
During the Obama administration, a Harvard nuclear expert, Graham Alli son, stated, “When you map weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, all roads intersect in Pakistan.”