tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post2989170683981373339..comments2024-03-19T09:06:21.507-04:00Comments on Irtiqa: Hoodbhoy: What if Pakistan did not have the bomb?Salman Hameedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04327330113822656571noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-60462236790918697772011-05-30T02:01:40.622-04:002011-05-30T02:01:40.622-04:00Another excellent article by Hoodbhoy!Another excellent article by Hoodbhoy!Atif Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137026009148344854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-24382309568812205842011-05-29T21:00:49.123-04:002011-05-29T21:00:49.123-04:00Tauseef:
I agree with you. Certainly, nuclear prol...Tauseef:<br />I agree with you. Certainly, nuclear proliferation comes with an immense price tag for an impoverished nation, but this is true for the entire defence forces of any country. Dr Hoodbhoy's article is biased as he conveniently and intentionally ommitted a few facts like Indian pursuit for the nukes and openly threatening Pakistan of a nuclear strike, especially after its tests on 11th May 1998, and testing it right next to Pakistani border to give a straight and clear message. Pakistan had no other choice. However I do agree that after neutering India off its nuclear dominance in the region, absolutely nothing was done for nation's development in any area. Pakistan could not show up as a developing, responsible, and progressive nuclear power. Religious intolerance and extremism became rampant and overrated, subduing the moderate cultural signature of our nation. Scientists started loving politics and politicians started meddling with any speck of scientific culture taking hold. Result is here.Akbarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-53194974982082196272011-05-29T18:51:40.855-04:002011-05-29T18:51:40.855-04:00I think what Mr Hoodbhoy is saying makes a lot of ...I think what Mr Hoodbhoy is saying makes a lot of sense. Nuclear proliferation is in not the way forward and a nation's honor and dignity comes from her citizens rather than the weapons it possess to scare/blackmail the world.Tauseefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650983256268055917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-58500957323029931522011-05-28T20:48:56.352-04:002011-05-28T20:48:56.352-04:00I think what Dr Khan is mentioning is Bangladesh w...I think what Dr Khan is mentioning is Bangladesh was created as a result of direct invasion by India which would have certainly been averted in such a scenario. This is very true, despite the argument whether Pakistan was justified or not for ruling over Bengalis. <br />And what Dr Hoodbhoy totally missed is that it was Soviet nuclear arsenal that always kept the third world war at bay. World would have been a different place had this balanced was not achieved and maintained by Moscow.<br /><br />Dear if your selective amnesia would permit, may I remind you that Indian leaders and media continously mentioned for 17 days about a possible nuclear strike on Pakistan after India's testing of nukes on 11th May 1998, leaving no option for Pakistan but to declare? <br /><br />Another point: Sky has always been falling over Pakistan throughout its entire 63 years history. Pakistan has seen worst political turmoils and natural disasters of biblical proportions, yet the nation lives, and I am damn proud of being a part of that.<br /><br />(My grandparents lost their entire family in 1971 massacre in East Pakistan at the hand of Bengalis, the rest ended up and vanished for ever in red cross camps. Yet I am alive, and prospering, and writing this feedback to you, being a Pakistani...Thank You Pakistan.)Akbarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38085367.post-79008615601214557322011-05-28T19:36:02.902-04:002011-05-28T19:36:02.902-04:00Another mindless article by this pseudoanalyst Hoo...Another mindless article by this pseudoanalyst Hoodbhoy out of personal anguish for being nowhere in the nation's nuclear pride (at least something to feel proud for being a Pakistani). As I repeatedly say, this aging professor has no power of thought to analyse political issues. (He is a good scientist though). What he misses is that, as an example, if Iraq had the same capability, its present population would have included 800,000 or so people who were killed directly as a result of the US invasion in Iraq.<br />He is one from the list of people who would sniff Pakistan's nuclear capability as the source of every problem the nation is facing. <br />I am not defending Dr. Khan here. I don't like him either, especially after his articles on Pakistani politics. I have great respect for him as a scientist only, like Dr Hoodbhoy.Akbarhttp://www.amateurastronomers.orgnoreply@blogger.com