Taliban aims to take over Pakistan, its nukes

Middle East • May 2011 • Views: 887

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The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, asserting that it is the only Muslim state possessing such weapons and the terror group aims to take over the country as well as its nukes.

Taliban has stepped-up violent campaign to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death has renewed fears that the country’s warheads could be vulnerable.

Declaring that “Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state,” Taliban Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that his group had no intention of changing the fact, Wall Street Journal reported. The Taliban, after all, aim to take over Pakistan and its weapons, he said.

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NJDhockeyfan Sat, May 28, 2011 2:46:43pm

I wonder if this has been brought up at the secret meetings with the Taliban and the US government?

Germany Mediates Secret US-Taliban Talks

It’s still unknown where exactly in Germany the American and Afghan negotiators met, but when they met can be pinpointed fairly exactly: at the turn of the year and on the second weekend in May.

It’s also fairly clear who attends these talks on peace in the Hindu Kush. On the American side, representatives of the State Department and the CIA are taking part. At this stage, it is mid-ranking officials from the Obama administration who are involved — a diplomatic ploy to play down the Taliban’s importance.

The key figure on the Afghan side is described on the list of negotiators as a “relative” of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. This appears to refer to Tayyab Agha, a man in his mid-30s with a long, thin beard, who used to work as office manager for Mullah Omar when he was the so-called emir of Afghanistan. Today, Agha is something along the lines of Mullah Omar’s personal spokesman. A high-ranking Afghan official in Kabul indicated around a month ago that Agha was in talks with the US on behalf of his boss. Similarly, the Afghan daily newspaper Weesa reported on direct contact between the Taliban and the US government for the first time a little more than a month ago.

Talks between the two sides, which continue to engage in daily skirmishes in Afghanistan, began last fall. The Americans chose the Gulf state of Qatar for the first meeting, but Germany had become the host country by the second session.

Berlin treats these meetings as a top-secret matter. Only a handful of people in the German Foreign Ministry are aware of the negotiations, as are a number of officials at the Chancellery. Otherwise, the business is kept hushed up. Nothing can be allowed to jeopardize the success of this delicate mission.

Bob Dillon Sat, May 28, 2011 3:10:04pm

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

In the past century the only successful end of conflict was WWII. In all others the cretins doing the negotiations managed to screw it up. While there is always hope a resolution can be found that benefits everyone on all sides … I personally do not think this “delicate mission” (i.e., negotiating with fanatics) will be any different and the loss of life both military and civilian along with the upheaval to lives around the world will have been in vain.

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