DoD 'Concerned' Over Pakistan Nukes

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DoD 'Concerned' Over Pakistan Nukes
AFX News | November 08, 2007


LONDON - A top Pentagon official said the fate of Pakistan's military arsenal was a "primary concern" after President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in his country.

Washington was keeping a close eye on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal following the recent upheaval, said Lieutenant General Carter Ham, Director of Operations with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"We will watch that very closely," he told reporters.

"Any time there is a regime that has nuclear weapons and that experiences a situation like in Pakistan, of course there is a primary concern."

Meanwhile, President Bush has urged Pakistan's military leader to hold parliamentary elections and shed his army uniform, while the opposition claimed that hundreds of its supporters were detained overnight to head off a major protest against emergency rule.

Police arrested at least 800 supporters of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto across the eastern province of Punjab ahead of a rally she is planning in Rawalpindi on Friday in defiance of a government ban, said Jamil Soomro, a spokesman for the opposition leader.


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[tekisui]

1. Mushy declares Martial Law.

Dismisses the Court, arrests defenders of democracy, shuts down the flow of information, suspends the constitution, watches the radicals claim towns, risks losing nukes and all chimpy says is "take off your clothes, big boy."