US provides cover to Pakistan on proliferation, terrorism

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Source: Times of India

WASHINGTON: Not for the first time, the United States has downplayed reports of alleged Pakistan’s nuclear transgressions and promotion of terrorism
even as American lawmakers are getting increasingly restive about a nominal ally having become the crossroad where terrorism and nuclear proliferation meet.

Because Washington is largely dependent on Islamabad for getting supplies to its 68,000 troops in landlocked Afghanistan, US officials are glossing over worrying reports ranging from clandestine nuclear transfers between Pakistan and China, to the Pakistani military running terror camps under the CIA’s nose, in order not to offend Islamabad.

On Friday, US officials had to again bat for Pakistan after embarrassing disclosures on the eve of President Obama’s visit to Beijing about the long-running China-Pakistan nuclear nexus, even as two US Congressmen demanded a probe into the Pakistani connection of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman who mowed down 13 people at a military base in Texas.

Demanding a Congressional inquiry, the lawmakers Pete Hoekstra (a former CIA Director) and Michael McCaul (a former prosecutor) spoke of money transfers Major Hasan (who is a US citizen of Palestinian origin) had made to Pakistan, recalling another famous money transfer from Pakistan to 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta that was never adequately probed or explained.

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It is high time we shut down Pakistani transgressions. We can cut off all Pakistani aid and supply the troops via Russia and Tajikistan or via Iran. Far better than letting the Pakistani cancer on the world grow.