Riedel, Sood understand Pak threat better

As Pakistan's defense establishment remains fixated to the idea of a Zionist-Hindu-U.S. plot to harm Pakistan, very few analysts understand the gravity of the threat emanating from a nuclear-armed Islamabad with the real possibility of an Islamic takeover.

Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Vikram Sood, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, are two exceptions, however.

It appears the problem was born in the murky waters of India's history.

Before the Muslims went on a rampage of India many centuries ago, the native people mostly Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, were extremely docile and accepted much of what happened to them as fait accompli as they believed in karma.

Over the centuries this has sent a wrong message among the belligerent sections of the jihadi Muslims -- today represented by the hawkish generals in Pakistan army -- who have looked upon the Hindus and others in India as vegetable eaters who can not confront the beef-eating jihadis.

This writer's late dad used to own rental apartments in old Karachi prior to the British partition of the Indian subcontinent and the tenants, mostly Sindhi Hindu petty traders, were extremely civil, polite and always used to pay their rent on time.

During the partition holocaust, the Hindus left Karachi and were replaced by Muslims from India. So when the dad went to collect rents, the new tenants refused to pay the rent and instead cussed him and told him, "The peaceful vegetarians have gone. We are beef-eaters like you and will show you."

For more than six decades, Islamabad has pursued the same policy towards India with tacit support from Washington DC.

Even as Pakistan, rather belatedly, takes action against some of its own Frankenstein monsters --theTaliban --on its western borders, it freed one of the main jihadis and chief architect of the mayhem in Mumbai on the eve of the Thanksgiving day last year, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.

One main aspect of Pakistan's proliferation activisties is totally being missed, however. Just like the U.S. and Canada have strategic military relationships that most Americans or Canadians may never understand, likewise Islamabad and Tehran have deep military-strategic links.

The deceased Muchool J. Shah, a cousin of the spiritual leader of the Aga Khanis and father of self-made millionaire and founder of Today newspaper in England, Eddy Shah, told this writer about these military ties.

During the 1965 war, U.S. military equipment could not be shipped to the Karachi Port and as such it was transported to Bandar Abbas from where it was reverted to Pakistan through land routes.

As such, since Pakistan tested its nuclear bomb 11 years ago it is almost certain Teheran has already laid its hands on all the technology needed to detonate the bomb anytime, courtesy Islamabad.