The Poisonous Snake

by Aarcee

Oct. 3, 2006

Some time ago, I wrote an article about A.Q. Khan and the 'Chor Bazaar' of Pakistani Nuclear Technology. ( http://www.patnadaily.com/readerswrite/2006/sep/aarcee3.html)
That article drew 9 comments.

Subsequent to that, I wrote another article when Musharraf's memoirs came out. Maybe it was the disgust that I felt when Musharraf stood with Mr. Bush as an 'ally' at the time of release of his so called 'memoirs' that my article got a little too strong-worded to pass through the editorial filters at PD. I had wondered, in blunt words, if the symbols of Mr. Musharraf's 'mardanagi' were sitting in a jar of formaldehyde on Mr. Armitage's desk! How I wish, I had toned down my language for that article! I never get perturbed when my articles get snagged this way, because frankly, all my articles are not the same quality. The ones that I write under an emotionally charged state, sound like works of art to me when I write them. Later, however, when I have had the chance to cool down, I start to revise things.

Anyway, the reason I am revisiting this topic is that A.Q. Khan's daughter (a U.K. resident) is in the news, trying to protect her dad from Musharraf. She is threatening to make public, all the information A.Q.K had on the sale of Nuclear Technology when he was put under house arrest.

In my original article I had warned that Indian leaders were talking to the wrong end of this poisonous snake - Pakistan. Today, when it is clearer than ever, that the Pakistani Military Junta was the one selling Nuclear Technology, the question comes to my mind repeatedly, why is this supplication and pacification being dished out to this dreaded snake whose character is so well known/revealed and documented?! What does India stand to gain from these desert dwelling fanatical people? By God, the ones that live in the NW parts of that God forsaken land look like the devil incarnate - much worse than Taliban! Can our leaders make friends with them? After all, what for? For the pipeline?! What pipeline brings the oil to the US from the Middle East ? Can't India get its oil the same way, than trying to coddle with the scum of the earth?

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