As the world marks the ninth anniversary of the Islamic Atomic Bomb, ignorance is bliss for the Western world.
The dangers posed to the world by Pakistan‘s nuclear weapon has been glossed over and the havoc it played in Chagai, in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan, has been conveniently forgotten.
The recent beheading of a Baloch at the hands of the Taliba’an on charges that he was a U.S. and N.A.T.O. informer has added a dangerous dimension to the politics of an already bloodied region.
The questionable genesis of Pakistan and its atrophy into a failed state, with the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most dangerous nations on the face of earth needs closer look.
Pakistan tested the Islamic Bomb in Chagai on May 28, 1998, with Chinese help in what it called a tit-for-tat for the tests India conducted in Pokhran two weeks earlier that same month.
Balochistan is a Texas-sized territory divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. It was there in Chagai, in Pakistani occupied Balochistan, where the world’s first Islamic Bomb was tested exactly nine years ago.
The Indian tests in Pokhran were equally despicable, but a major difference is that Pakistan conducted the tests on occupied lands, against the wishes of the Baloch people.
As a matter of historical record, Balochistan remained an independent nation until its forced annexation on March 27, 1948. Not many know, Balochistan was granted independence few days prior to the British granting independence to India and carving out Pakistan on August 14, 1947.
The recent violence in Pakistan’s commercial capital
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