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Pakistan is the world's only Muslim-majority nuclear state
with an estimated 70 and 90 warheads
Pakistan's is still a undeveloped nation that
faces poverty and especially illiteracy. It is the sixth most populous
country in the world and has the second largest Muslim population in the
world after Indonesia. It also has the second largest Shia Muslim
population in the world.
Shaun Gregory, an expert on Pakistani security said in an e-mail to The
Associated Press that "there is plenty of evidence of threat against the
nuclear installations in Pakistan by the Taliban."
Individuals in the Pakistan military have colluded with al-Qaida in
providing safe houses for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of
the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and individuals in Pakistan's civil nuclear
sector have met with al-Qaida figures, including Osama bin Laden
himself, Gregory said.
Pakistani officials have told the Obama administration that the Marines
fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will force militants across the
border into Pakistan, with the potential to further inflame the troubled
province of Baluchistan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Pakistan does not have enough troops to deploy to Baluchistan to take on the
Taliban without denuding its border with its archenemy, India, the officials
said. Dialogue with the Taliban, not more fighting, is in Pakistan’s
national interest, they said.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said those who had planned the
Sept. 11 attacks were now sheltering in Pakistan. The Pakistani Foreign
Ministry issued an immediate rebuttal.
Pakistanis have long supported the Taliban as allies to exert influence
in neighboring Afghanistan. Unlike Afghans, they have never lived under
Taliban rule, and have been slow to absorb its dangers. But that is
changing, as the experience of those Pakistanis who have now lived under the
Taliban has left many disillusioned.
Over more than a year of fighting, the militants moved into Swat, by killing
or driving out the wealthy and promising to improve the lives of the poor.
Finally, the military agreed to a truce in February 2009 that all but
ceded Swat to the Taliban and allowed the insurgents to impose Islamic law,
or Shariah.
The prospect of Shariah was alluring, said Iftikhar Ehmad, who owns a
cellphone shop in Mingora, the most populous city in Swat, because the court
system in Swat was so corrupt and ineffective. But the Taliban’s Shariah was
not the benign change people had hoped for. Once the Taliban took power, the
insurgents seemed interested only in amassing more, and in April they pushed
into Buner, a neighboring district 60 miles from Islamabad.
“It was not Shariah, it was something else,” Mr. Ehmad said, jabbing
angrily at the air with his finger in the scorching tent camp in the town of
Swabi. “It was scoundrel behavior.”
Daily life became degrading. A woman was lashed in public, and a video of
her writhing in pain and begging for mercy stirred wide outrage. Taliban
bosses ordered people to donate money. Cosmetics shops and girls’ schools
were burned.
By the time the military entered Swat in August 2009, local people began
leading soldiers to tunnels with weapons and Taliban hiding places in
hotels, the military said. “These people, six months back, weren’t willing
to share anything,” said a military official who was involved in planning
the campaign. “Gradually they’ve been coming out more and more into the
open.”
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 the country entered into an alliance
with the United States that it later claimed was the result of coercion.
In 2002, Pakistan came to the brink of war with India after Islamic members
of a Pakistani militant group attacked India's Parliament.
But the last few years have been tumultuous even by Pakistan's standards, as
its military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was forced from office and
a combination of the Taliban and home-grown Islamic militants spread their
control from country's mountainous western border ever further toward the
capital.
By May 2009, the insurgency appeared to be posing a threat to the very
existence of the state, and the nation's military, which had stayed focused
primarily on its tense border with India, decided to initiate a head-on
fight to take back the regions seized by the militants. With strong public
support many Pakistani's who had previously seen the "war on terror'' as an
American import expressed revulsion against extremist acts by the Taliban.
The army unleashed air and ground forces in tribal areas along the country's
western border with Afghanistan and areas like the Swat Valley and South
Waziristan from the militants.
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is the smallest of the four
provinces of Pakistan. The NWFP is home to the majority Pashtuns. After he
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Following the invasion over five
million Afghan refugees poured into Pakistan, most residing in the NWFP (as
of 2007 nearly 3 million remain).
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