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BY ADNAN S. KHAN


India has finally met the requirements for its Bush-era nuclear proliferation deal and will be able to purchase nuclear technology and material from the United States. The announcement comes after the Obama administration suggested it would consider providing a similar deal to India’s most heated rival, Pakistan.

That possible deal is raising concern in India, according to New Delhi TV. A former national security advisor is asking whether the United States knows what it’s doing.

Brajesh Mishra: “Sometime I wonder and I find it difficult to decide whether the Americans are being naïve or devious. Look, they have known about Pakistan’s ambitions on nuclear weapons since the '80s. They have known and they have done nothing about it.”

The Bush administration’s nuclear proliferation deal allowed the U.S. to sell India nuclear technology and material, on the condition that India meet a list of strict requirements outlined by the U.S. It has taken India five years to meet those requirements. A blog from Foreign Policy magazine argues that fears over a similar deal with Pakistan are misplaced.

“Then, there is the fear that Pakistani soldiers and officers with extremist sympathies could hand over a 'dirty' bomb to the Taliban, which somehow ignores the fact that the Pakistani army already has plenty of nukes to distribute to the Taliban if they so desired.”

Pakistan has been negotiating for two nuclear reactors from its close friend, China. Russia Today suggests deal or no deal with the U.S. — Pakistan will always have a partner in China. 

“China and Pakistan have been partners for 40 years now, more than 40 years. Initially this was motivated by, above all, mutual hostility towards India. Now in addition China has a very strong interest in Pakistan as a future energy route from the Persian Gulf to China, so this isn’t new. The nuclear element is new..."

InstaBlogs argues for India to get worked up over Pakistan’s recent nuclear venture, is pointless. There are numerous reasons why Pakistan cannot acquire such technology, with civil unrest and terrorism being the least of those reasons.

“Pakistan is a bankrupt state, it is a country that cannot even buy its own weapons and instead uses American brands to fund most of its arms purchases. Pakistan simply lacks the financial capability to buy or absorb any nuclear reactor.”

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