The US needs to stay in Afghanistan because its immediate neighbour Pakistan has nuclear weapons which have to be protected, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said.
“I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for a while, because of the fact that you are right next to Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons and we have to protect that. Nuclear weapons change the game,” he said while responding to a question on Afghanistan during the Republican presidential debate on Thursday.
Last year, Trump had called Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world. In an interview, he had indicated that Pakistan needs to be denuclearise.
“You have to get India involved. India’s the check to Pakistan,” he said in a radio address in September last year when asked what he would do if Pakistan “the most dangerous country in the world other than Iran” became unstable.
“They (India) have their own nukes and have a very powerful army. They seem to be the real check… I think we have to deal very closely with India to deal with it (Pakistan),” Trump had said, setting off intense chatter among Pakistani experts whose approach to Islamabad’s recklessness so far has been one of caution and discretion.
The US is concerned over Pakistan’s fast-expanding stockpile of nuclear weapons which combined with its evolving doctrine increases the risk of an “accident”, Pentagon’s top spy master said on Wednesday.
“Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile continues to grow. We are concerned that this growth, as well as the evolving doctrine associated with tactical nuclear weapons, increases the risk of an incident or accident,” Lt Gen Vincent Stewart, director of Defence Intelligence Agency had told lawmakers on Wednesday during a Congressional hearing.
“Islamabad continues to take steps to improve its nuclear security, and is aware of the threat presented by extremists to its programme,” Stewart said during his testimony before the house armed services committee on worldwide threats.
Pakistan will face internal security threats from militant, sectarian and separatist groups this year, he said, adding that ISIS in Khorasan and al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent will also remain significant security concerns for Islamabad.
I hope he finally doe make Pakistan denuclearize! That will be good for the rest of the world.
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