Pak gains spotlight
25 Oct 2012 4:39 AM IST
The final US Presidential debate on Tuesday raised questions over Pakistan, with Republican contender Mitt Romney apprehending that with 100 nuclear warheads if the country becomes a ‘failed state’, it would be an extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and America. President Barack Obama exhibited his own trust deficit over Pakistan when he disclosed that had Islamabad been consulted on the commando operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, the US would not have succeeded.
In the third and final debate which polls gave to incumbent President, 65-year-old Romney said Pakistan ‘is important to the region, to the world and to us’ because it had 100 nuclear warheads and was rushing to build a lot more.
‘They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future,’ Romney said.
‘They also have the Haqqani network and Taliban existent within their country. And so a Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and us.
Romney argued that despite a strained relationship with Pakistan, the United States cannot afford to ‘divorce’ Pakistan, which is a nation of over 100 nuclear weapons.
In the third and final debate which polls gave to incumbent President, 65-year-old Romney said Pakistan ‘is important to the region, to the world and to us’ because it had 100 nuclear warheads and was rushing to build a lot more.
‘They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future,’ Romney said.
‘They also have the Haqqani network and Taliban existent within their country. And so a Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and us.
Romney argued that despite a strained relationship with Pakistan, the United States cannot afford to ‘divorce’ Pakistan, which is a nation of over 100 nuclear weapons.
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