10 months ago, the Pakistani government touted the death of top al-Qaeda figure Mustafa Abu al-Yazid in the Bajaur Agency. Today, he gave a notably live interview with al-Jazeera in which he made some chilling comments regarding Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
When asked about the prospect of the US seizing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal during the growing instability, Yazid declared “God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans.”
Yazid also expressed hope that the Pakistani military would be defeated in its ongoing operation in the Swat Valley, and promised continued “large scale operations” against the United States, though he left open the possibility of a decade-long truce if the US agreed to withdraw from Muslim nations.
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal has been a serious issue during the nation’s recent instability. President Obama has conceded that the US is considering “all options” with respect to the arsenal, and there has been considerable speculation the US may try to capture them.
"Apart from the current debacle, Indian nuclear programme has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. This is not the first case of mysterious disappearance and death of an employee of India’s strategic programme. A few weeks back another employee Ravi Mule of the same Kaiga Atomic Power Plant was murdered and his dead body was found in jungle in Kaiga township. Dr Anil Kumar Tiwari, the Director of Uttaranchal Space Application Centre, was assassinated on November 11, 2006."
Lot's of scary news in the subcontinent theze dayz!!