Pakistan is facing a grave internal security crisis as radical extremists are gradually gaining ground. The crisis is attributable to a large extent to the resurgence of Islamist fundamentalist forces and the army's inability to fight them effectively. Just weeks after the U.S. humiliated Pakistan with the bin Laden raid, Taliban insurgents laid siege on a naval station and left 10 soldiers dead. Trouble is, Pakistan is a nuclear power, and is pushing ahead as hard and as fast as it can to expand its nuclear weapons production. The fact these militants could get so far into a Pakistani military base shows just how incompetent the Pakistani government / military is. If Pakistan can't secure a critical naval air station, and allows relatively unsophisticated tribal terrorists to destroy its maritime surveillance infrastructure, just how secure are its nuclear weapons production and storage facilities? What if nuclear weapons fall into the wrong hands of Taliban or Al Qaeda terrorists? In ...more

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