Keeping Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Out of the Hands of Terrorists | The Heritage Foundation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Despite Pakistan's arguments that its nuclear weapons are safely guarded, the U.S. must construct and implement policies that proactively thwart the unwelcome possibility of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.
59% : Iran, in turn, began to export to Pakistan
56% : Pakistan's relations with Iran have been far from smooth over the last three decades.
54% : President Musharraf already contends with public opposition to his support for U.S. counterterrorism goals in the region, and conditioning aid through legislation would awaken memories of 1990 and weaken Pakistani public support for pursuing relations with the U.S.Instead of conditioning aid on specific actions by Islamabad, Washington should target its assistance programs more effectively to accomplish specific goals.
50% : Iran responded by amassing its military along the border with Afghanistan.
45% : Pakistan's support of the Sunni Taliban in the mid-1990s significantly raised tensions between Tehran and Islamabad.
43% : The six-month-long India-Pakistan military cri­sis sparked by a terrorist attack on India's parliament in December 2001 was defused after U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage secured a com­mitment from President Musharraf to end the infil­tration of Kashmiri militants into Indian-held Kashmir.

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