http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2009/04/21/2285/pakistans-buner-district-falls-to-taliban-takeover/ Global News & Information, Culture, Media Critique & Video Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2009/04/21/2285/pakistans-buner-district-falls-to-taliban-takeover/comment-page-1/#comment-765 Taliban Foothold in Buner Severe Risk to Pakistan/Regional Security | CafeSentido.com Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:36:02 +0000 http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/?p=2285#comment-765 [...] With an Afghan-Pakistani hybrid Taliban taking hold of significant areas inside Pakistan, the nuclear-armed nation has become a grave security risk to the rest of the region and the world. After signing a deal with Pakistan’s government to take control of the Swat Valley and impose a brutal distortion of shari’a law, the Taliban almost immediately launched attacks deeper into Pakistan, taking control of parts of the Buner district.  [...] [...] With an Afghan-Pakistani hybrid Taliban taking hold of significant areas inside Pakistan, the nuclear-armed nation has become a grave security risk to the rest of the region and the world. After signing a deal with Pakistan’s government to take control of the Swat Valley and impose a brutal distortion of shari’a law, the Taliban almost immediately launched attacks deeper into Pakistan, taking control of parts of the Buner district.  [...]

]]> http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2009/04/21/2285/pakistans-buner-district-falls-to-taliban-takeover/comment-page-1/#comment-762 Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons More Realistic than Selective Non-proliferation | CafeSentido.com Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:36:35 +0000 http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/?p=2285#comment-762 [...] What we are seeing now in Pakistan is a good example: there is no guarantee that selective non-proliferation will not lead to cooperative black-market mechanisms that facilitate the spread of nuclear-weapons technology. Pakistan acquired the technology this way, and some of its black-marketeers may have further spread the technology they purchased. Pakistan is now experiencing severe political destabilization and the Taliban has taken over areas just 100 km from the capital. [...] [...] What we are seeing now in Pakistan is a good example: there is no guarantee that selective non-proliferation will not lead to cooperative black-market mechanisms that facilitate the spread of nuclear-weapons technology. Pakistan acquired the technology this way, and some of its black-marketeers may have further spread the technology they purchased. Pakistan is now experiencing severe political destabilization and the Taliban has taken over areas just 100 km from the capital. [...]

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