Can Pakistan’s weapons fall into the wrong hands? By saurabh shahi, shahid hussain and mayank singh

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It’s an issue that grabs the mainstream headlines at regular intervals. It’s also a debate where, depending on the existing situation, the importance of supportive or critical voices of nations, diplomats and experts keeps fluctuating wildly. Recently, when two Pakistani nuclear scientists were ‘kidnapped’ near the country’s north-western border with Afghanistan, several Indian experts thought that the duo had actually ‘defected’ to terrorist group, Al Qaeda, to offer their services to build a nuclear weapon.

These believers in ‘rogue nukes’ pointed out that similar incidents had happened in the past. “Pakistan’s top nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, met Al Qaeda members on two occasions in 2000 and 2001, and shared sensitive nuclear secrets. As far as the kidnapping of two scientists is concerned, I don’t say that they are going to join hands with the terrorists. But it has happened once, and I am not sure that it’s not going to happen again,” says Reshmi Kazi, Associate Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis in India.

Adds Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal (retd.), Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, “Three Pakistani nuclear scientists were arrested and handed over to the US intelligence agencies in 2001. Two of them were senior scientists, who had set up an NGO, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, after their retirement, and its membership comprised nuclear scientists and military officers known to have close links with Taliban, former Afghanistan’s conservative-religious regime, which gave a safe haven to Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden.

In India, such conclusions gain credence, especially when advisors like M.K. Narayanan, National Security Advisor, espouse similar sentiments. A month ago, without naming Pakistan, he said that “credible reports suggest that the region has been both a source and destination for proliferation of weapons of mass destruction material and equipment, a situation that is a cause for concern. A great threat to stability from nuclear weapons in the hands of volatile states cannot be discounted.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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