Governments of the world’s leading democracies still continue to gloss over Pakistan’s minority rights violations One of the quintessential functions of a modern state is to foster the multi-faceted development of all its citizens. Ironically, however, few states fulfill this function in the...
US, West, Ignoring Pakistan’s Nuclear Threat
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With both Pakistan’s strongmen and its Islamist forces ready to take anti-Western action, the U.S. and the West must reconsider the amount of attention they pay to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. For more than two decades now, the West has been occupied with nuclear programs of classic anti-Western forces, such as Iran, the now-toppled Gaddafi regime of Libya and North Korea. Nonetheless, the West has been overlooking an Islamic country that already has nuclear arms rather than nuclear ambitions: Pakistan. Pakistan is a nuclear power that might swiftly fall into the hands of Islamists. If that happens, Pakistan might well be...