Ever
since the revelation that Abdul Qadeer Khan had been operating a
nuclear black market, Pakistan has had to constantly defend its right
to be a nuclear power in a way that India — which went nuclear at the
same time as us, or Israel, which never officially admitted to its
nuclear capability — never had to. The
international community continues to worry
that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists,
a fear that ignores the many changes we made to our nuclear protocols
and safety in the last few years. Thus, while Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gilani’s call for us to be given civil nuclear technology
at a nuclear-security summit in Seoul will most likely be rebuffed,
perhaps, the time is right to admit Pakistan to the club of responsible
nuclear powers.
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