Pakistan’s Current International Image-Rogue State Exporting Global Terrorism &

Nuclear Proliferation: It would be a travesty of truth to subscribe and agree to the official
United States depiction of Pakistan and its military ruler. The truth that is emerging post-9/11, is
that:

* Pakistan was the cess-pool of Islamic Jehadi global terrorism whose most diabolic
visitation was on the United States. 

* The 9/11 bombers were in one way or the other linked to Pakistan’s official
machinery and patronage. 

* Post-9/11 arrests of the Al Qaeda hierarchy and others have been in Pakistan, only
due to sheer persistence of the American FBI operating inside Pakistan. 

* As if exporting Islamic Jehadi terrorism was not enough, evidence has emerged in
the United States of Pakistan exporting nuclear weapons know-how and materials to
North Korea, even after 9/11, under General Musharraf’s regime.  

Pakistan’s international image today is not only of a ‘failed state’ but also that of a “rogue state”
caught blatantly in exporting global terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Shameless denials by
Pakistan on both these counts add to Pakistan’s foreign policy predicaments. 

Pakistan and the United States-Denouement Inevitable: Promiscuous relationships are never
of long duration. The history of Pakistan-United States relations is an ample indicator. Pakistan’s
current promiscuous relationship with the United States is on more shakier foundations than the
past. 

General Musharraf may have discarded the Taliban but he has not been able to discard the
Islamic fundamentalist parties of Pakistan. They were his “natural allies” and of the Pakistan
Army. In the Army controlled elections that have taken place in October, the Islamic
fundamentalist parties have emerged victorious in unprecedented strength. But for American
intervention, the Prime Minister would have been from these parties. 

One swallow does not make a summer and therefore one Pakistan General cannot deliver a
moderate, democratic and stable Pakistan to serve United States national interests. 

Pakistan’s foreign policy planners cannot ignore the United States in a unipolar world. Pakistan’s
‘China card’ is not operative in this context. 

The election results in Pakistan should be an ample indicator to the United States that Pakistan
cannot be rescued from the morass of Islamic fundamentalism. Islamic fundamentalist parties
have already made the following demands in the opening session of the Pak National Assembly,
in November 2002: 

* Pakistan must withdraw the use of its military bases by the United States armed
forces 
 * United States must withdraw its military forces from Pakistan 

* Their governments in the provinces of NWFP and Baluchistan will not permit US
military forces to conducts military operations on the Pak-Afghan border. 

* Pakistanis must ‘self determine’ the nation's domestic policies.  

Pakistan today is controlled by Islamic fundamentalists. No more evidence was required as by

the Pakistani officials attendance at the funeral of Kansi, who was involved in CIA killings and
who was executed in USA and his body brought to Quetta. Pakistani officialdom was
represented at this funeral by the entire civil hierarchy of Baluchistan, the local Pakistan Army
Corps Commander and the Pakistani Ambassador in USA, Ashraf Jahangir Qazi.. 

Pakistan’s major foreign policy predicament would now be as to how to keep United States
engaged with Pakistan, so as to ensure that the Kashmir issue is kept alive with American
support, and American ire is kept at bay. 

The scenario above does not permit a proximate Pak-USA engaged relationship. Denouncement
is inevitable as Pakistan finds it increasingly impossible to curb growth of Islamic
fundamentalism. 

It should not be viewed as inconceivable that the United States demands Pakistan’s
accountability over its nuclear proliferation, sequentially, after it completes its mission in Iraq.
Panel discussions on Pakistan TV have aired fears that after Iraq, Pakistan may be the next target
of the United States for the same reasons- WMD, export of terrorism and nuclear proliferation . 

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