Pakistan's 'cancer' will consume the whole nation: Hawksley

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_334581,0008.htm

...He has little doubt about where the third world war would begin. "Pakistan is facing an abyss. It has yet to determine what it is as a nation, and it has to declare and commit to the Kashmir issue resolved through negotiation and diplomacy - and not violence," he says...

...He asserts, "The US has to ally itself unequivocally to India and not play it off against Pakistan. It must treat India as an equal and a guiding moral light for democracy in the developing world. China must stop all military supplies to Pakistan. It must also stop using Pakistan as a weapon to keep India weak."..

...Discussing India, he says, "I also have posed moral dilemma's mostly to India which is not an aggressive nation, but one which is under attack. The key one is this: If your country is attacked by terrorists with nuclear weapons, who do you retaliate against -- when you cannot directly get to the attackers. Is it right to use a nuclear weapon against civilian populations, simply to make a show of hitting back.

"In other words - what would India actually do if an illegal military junta in Pakistan destroyed Delhi with a nuclear weapon."

Discussing the eventuality of a third world war, he says, "It is not difficult to see where a Third World War would begin. Pakistan has a cancer inside it which began during the rule of Zia. It has allowed itself to be exploited by both Islamic extremism and US short-termism for the past two generations. It is the only territory which both actively nurtures Al-Qaeda terrorists and nuclear weapons. The military is the only functioning institution. Many of the officers within it sympathise with the aspirations of Islamic extremism...


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