Word: pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: Washington won?t need on-point satellite intelligence to anticipate Pakistan's test of a nuclear device in the near future. The signs are hard to miss: ?To stop Pakistan from testing, the G8 summit would have had to come out with tangible and strong penalties against India,? says TIME intelligence correspondent Douglas Waller. ?But the summit came up only with rhetoric, not concrete measures...
...With Pakistan already under U.S. sanctions for its nuclear program, adds Waller, ?there are not many levers left to pull." And pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and other opposition parties is likely to spur Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to test. ?Most observers here would be amazed if a test does not take place,? reports TIME Islamabad correspondent Hannah Bloch...
...While such news is meant to impress the Big Five -- America, Russia, Britain, France and China -- it won't go down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...
...trying to represent all South Asians. It doesn't mean just being from India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka...but also the immigration experience or [an individual's] cultural heritage," Upadhyay said...
...improbable upsurge of Indian nuclear threats is more about domestic political grandstanding than the state of relations with Pakistan, says McGirk, ?and they?re not likely to risk international condemnation by taking this path for at least the next few years.? Which is cause for relief, since few analysts believe Vajpayee?s government will last that long...