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India-Pakistan
Pakistan developing missiles that eventually could hit US, says White House official
2024-12-20
[GEO.TV] A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistain is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets outside of South Asia, including the United States.
Could, yes. Probably? I’d vote probably no. They’d use them on India long before turning their attention to faraway America, and India would trounce them as they’ve done every time before.
"Candidly, it's hard for us to see Pakistain's actions as anything other than an emerging threat to the United States," Finer said in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The latest statement comes only a day after the US State Department said it was imposing additional sanctions related to Pakistain's ballistic missile programme, targeting four entities that it said were contributing to the proliferation or delivery of such weapons.
A good idea as a matter of principle — Pakistan can be trusted to be untrustworthy, just like the Palestinians can be trusted to miss an opportunity.. If only the State Department had taken the same approach to Iran…
The statement, issued on the State Department's website, said that the decision was taken "in light of the continuing proliferation threat of Pakistain’s long-range missile development".

It added that the four entities were being designated for sanctions pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13382, which targeted proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.  

"Pakistain’s National Development Complex — which is responsible for Pakistain’s ballistic missile program and has worked to acquire items to advance Pakistain’s long range ballistic missile program — and Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private Limited, and Rockside Enterprise — which have worked to supply equipment and missile‐applicable items to Pakistain’s ballistic missile program, including its long range missile program — are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13382 Section 1(a)(ii) for having engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer, or use such items, by Pakistain," read the statement.
Posted by:Fred

#2  The DOS can be trusted to both miss opportunities and be untrustworthy and blind
Posted by: alanc   2024-12-20 17:38  

#1  Paying for the effort with Biden dollars.

RETRO
U.S. President Joe Biden proposes to double economic support fund to cash-strapped Pakistan
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-12-20 07:20  

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