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>please see my comments in third bracket in Bold in the article
Shah Abdul Hannan
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/177622/anniversary-what-if-pakistan-did-not-\
have-the-bomb/
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> Anniversary
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> By Pervez Hoodbhoy
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> Published
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> Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has spent the last few years confined by the
Pakistan Army to one of his palatial
whiles away his days writing weekly columns in newspapers. This
venerable metallurgist, who claims paternity rights over
bomb, says it alone saves
wrote
have lost half of our country – present-day
disgraceful defeat."
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> Given that 30,000 nuclear weapons failed to save the
decay, defeat and collapse, could the Bomb really have saved
1971? Can it do so now?
[ Hoodabhoy should answer then why
big powers have Nuclear arsenal. The collapse of Soviet
Union is a complex matter. It has more to do with
internal division within communist party]
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> Let's revisit 1971. Those of us who grew up in those times know in
our hearts that East and
nation. Young people today cannot imagine the rampant anti-Bengali
racism among West Pakistanis then. With great shame, I must admit that
as a thoughtless young boy I too felt embarrassed about small and dark
people being among our compatriots. Victims of a delusion, we thought
that good Muslims and Pakistanis were tall, fair, and spoke chaste Urdu.
Some schoolmates would laugh at the strange sounding Bengali news
broadcasts from Radio
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> The Bengali people suffered under West Pakistani rule. They believed
their historical destiny was to be a Bengali-speaking nation, not the
Urdu-speaking
bitter on other grounds too. It had 54% of
was the biggest earner of foreign exchange. But West Pakistani generals,
bureaucrats, and politicians such as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, feared a
democratic system would transfer power and national resources to the
East
.[ Division of
Confuse people of
That East Bengal started from scratch and surpassed
.Headachy should read all aspects of the issue. He can read the attached book
written by a great thinker of
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> Denied democracy and justice, the people of
watched the cash flow from East to fund government, industry, schools
and dams in the West. When the Bhola cyclone killed half a million
people in 1970, President Yahya Khan and his fellow generals in
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> The decisive break came with the elections. The Awami League won a
majority in
accept the peoples' verdict. The Bengalis finally rose up for
independence. When the
massacre. Political activists, intellectuals, trade unionists, and
students were slaughtered. Blood ran in street gutters, and millions
fled across the border. After
army surrendered.
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> That
greatest of blessings. It is hard for me to see what Dr AQ Khan has in
mind when he suggests that it could have saved
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> Would the good doctor have dropped the bomb on the raging
pro-independence mobs in
should we have threatened
the war so that we could endlessly kill East Pakistanis? Even without
the bomb, estimated civilian deaths numbered in the hundreds of
thousands if not a million. How many more East Pakistanis would he have
liked to see killed for keeping
[Nuclear bomb would have stopped
Say that Indian army made
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> Some might argue that regardless of the death and destruction, using
the bomb to keep
people of
statistics can help decide.
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index compiled by an independent London-based think-tank, the Legatum
Institute, using governance, education, health, security, personal
freedom, and social capital as criteria.
position, just one notch above
the East have benefited from independence. The UN Human Development
Index puts
gained little, if anything, by remaining with
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> But numerical data does not tell the whole story.
but more hopeful and happier. Culture is thriving, education is
improving, and efforts to control population growth are more fruitful
than in
attacks upon its state institutions and military forces.
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> What can the bomb do for
up
population of 1.2 billion, of which almost half are desperately poor. It
has no reason to want an additional 180 million people to feed and
educate. Second, even if an aggressive and expansionist
asymmetrical warfare would make territorial conquest and occupation
impossible. The difficulties faced by
or of
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> The bomb did deter
thrice since the 1998 tests. There were angry demands within
attacking the camps of Pakistan-based militant groups after
on the Indian parliament the same year (initially claimed by
Jaish-e-Muhammad), and the Mumbai attack in 2008 by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
However, this problem only exists because the bomb has been used to
protect these militant groups. The nuclear umbrella explains why
in the name of Islam
westerners. It was, as we now know, the last lair of Osama bin Laden as
well.
[ Headachy is no friend of Islam. He is against all just Muslim causes]
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white-South
Rather, it has helped bring
situation and offers no way out.
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> On this May 28, the day when
us resolve to eliminate this curse rather than celebrate. Instead of
building more bombs, we need to protect ourselves by building a
sustainable and active democracy, an economy for peace rather than war,
a federation in which provincial grievances can be effectively resolved,
elimination of the feudal order and creating a tolerant society that
respects the rule of law.
[Nuclear arsenal is no good. But he first should advise
I am for total de-nuclearisation of the world which U.S. and other super powers do not agree]
> The author is a professor of nuclear physics and teaches in
and
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> Published in The Express Tribune, May 28th, 2011.
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> Peace Is Doable
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