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Musharraf’s Pakistan Tests Nuclear Missile

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Pakistan cannot do anything without the tacit approval of the United States of America. And the world knows this.

Here comes the news of Pakistan testing nuclear-capable missile today. People living in South Asia wonder what games President George Bush and President Pervez Musharraf are playing, with the US Congress watching all this with intriguing silence.

A latest report states that “Pakistan successfully test-fired an indigenously developed short-range nuclear-capable missile on Saturday, the military said. The surface-to-surface Abdali ballistic missile – which has a range of 200 kilometers and was launched from an undisclosed location inside Pakistan – can carry all types of warheads,’ the military said in a statement issued from Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital, Islamabad.”

The US administration is dumping American taxpayers money in Pakistan with no visible accountability. Which means that the silence of Americans makes them accomplices in the goings-on of the nefarious activities in Pakistan.

“In a key finding of an investigative study by the Washington-based organization that does investigative reporting and research on significant public issues Center for Public Integrity, the U.S. military aid to Pakistan soared to $4.2 billion after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack compared to $9.1 million in the three years before the attack boosting Pakistan to the top tier of countries receiving military funding.

“The Center for Public Integrity revealed the U.S. military support to Pakistan using data assembled through Freedom of Information Act requests…”

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