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Father of Pakistan nuke program: Pakistan could target Delhi in five minutes

May 30, 2016 1:23 pm By Robert Spencer

A top Iranian commander recently made a similar threat regarding Israel.

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“Nuclear-armed Pakistan can ‘target’ Delhi in 5 minutes: Abdul Qadeer Khan,” PTI, May 29, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

ISLAMABAD: Nuclear-armed Pakistan has the ability to “target” the Indian capital Delhi in five minutes, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said.

Addressing a gathering here on the 18th anniversary of Pakistan’s first nuclear tests, which were carried out under his supervision in 1998, Khan, said Pakistan could have become a nuclear power as early as 1984 but the then President General Zia ul Haq “opposed the move”.

The 80-year-old nuclear physicist said General Zia, who was Pakistan’s President from 1978 to 1988, opposed the nuclear testing as he believed that the world would intervene militarily.

Further, it would have also curtailed international aid Pakistan was receiving due to the ongoing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

“We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984. But President General Zia ul Haq had opposed the move,” Khan said on Saturday.

Khan also said that Pakistan has the ability to “target” Delhi from Kahuta near Rawalpindi in five minutes.

Kahuta is the home to the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL), Pakistan’s key uranium enrichment facility, linked to the atomic bomb project.

Khan was disgraced in 2004 when he was forced to accept responsibility for nuclear technology proliferation and was forced to live a life of official house arrest. In 2009, the Islamabad high court declared Khan to be a free citizen of Pakistan, allowing him free movement inside the country.

He regretted the treatment and said Pakistan would never have achieved the feat of becoming first Muslim nuclear country without his “services”.

“Without my services Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it,” said Khan….

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  1. umbra says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:18 pm

    India is improving her nuke capabilities and are currently developing the nuclear triad – sea, air and land systems. These Indian systems in 10 years will far surpass that of pak with a credible second strike capability. In addition, Indian surveillance (through their own space/satellite program) would give her the ability to track almost all, if not all, of pak nukes – ballistic missiles and bomber squadrons.

    pak is geographically smaller and its industries and population are more concentrated than India. If there were to be a full scale nuke exchange, India will be badly damaged with significant population loss. pak on the other hand would erased as a state. Deep down, those paks would wet their pants if India gets into full gear.

    • umbra says

      May 31, 2016 at 1:40 am

      pak has no known ballistic subs (it could not afford to operate them even if it has them). India on the other hand is building a few at this very moment. The only thing pak has in terms of quick nuke strike is its land based ballistic missiles. Even its nuke bomber fleet takes time to arm and to fly to target. It is also unclear what the reaction time for pak ballistic missiles are. The US and Russia (perhaps China to a lesser extent) have fixed silo ballistic missile the could be launched in minutes. Most of pak’s ballistic missile appears to be mobile units which takes some time to setup prior to launch.

      Also, pak’s surveillance is limited, especially satellite based. The only useful access to satellite would probably be through the US or Chinese.

    • Fred says

      May 31, 2016 at 10:24 am

      India may very well target Mecca, if Pakistan used nukes. It would make very good sense.

      • umbra says

        May 31, 2016 at 1:20 pm

        Any nuclear war between india and pak would most likely be localised within the sub-continent. India has 150+ million ROP followers. She would not want to turn a war between states into a religious war. There is already enough problems with ROP types in India. Furthermore, saudi arabia is protected by the US.

  2. RonaldB says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    We should recall that the Pakistani nuclear program was begun by Abdus Salaam, the “peaceful” Ahmadi. The Ahmadiyyah constantly portray themselves as peaceful Muslims, while supporting the expansion of Islamic political and cultural power.

    • baconator says

      May 30, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Not Abdus Salam but it is this very guy, Abdul Qadeer who started the Paki nuclear program by stealing uranium enrichment technology from the Netherlands URENCO plan and then exchanging that with China for the blueprint of of a fission weapon.

      • RonaldB says

        May 31, 2016 at 11:17 am

        “As Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan’s development of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and may have contributed as well to development of atomic bomb project of Pakistan in 1972;[9] for this, he is viewed as the “scientific father”[3][10] of this programme”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam

      • Mazo says

        May 31, 2016 at 9:09 pm

        Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui worked on building the original first atomic bomb on the Manhattan project in World War II and later worked on Pakistan’s nuclear program.

        Don’t think too highly of your ant sized brain

        • Angemon says

          Jun 1, 2016 at 7:11 am

          Ah, I was wondering when you’d show up to kick sand. baconator is right – were it not for theft and deals with China, Pakistan would not have a nuclear weapons program, Siddiqui or no Siddiqui .

  3. Jaladhi says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    This bastard stole nuclear secrets while working at Netherland nuclear energy program and then sold the secrets to rouge states such as Iran, North Korea and Libya. Then this thief boasts about targeting Delhi in five minutes.Ha, ha.. this delusional brain dead forgets that he or any other Pakistani scientist would never have been able to make any nuclear device if it were not for his thievery. India’s nuclear program was way ahead Pak’s, developed solely by Indian scientists! Oh well, thieves always boast!

    • Jaladhi says

      May 30, 2016 at 5:24 pm

      To be precise he stole (copied) the blue prints of centrifuges from the Dutch to concentrate the radioactive isotope of uranium and plutonium for use in nuclear fission.The same design was sold to Iran by him ( or Pakistani government) and also given to North Korea in exchange for missile technology. Libya was also given the design of centrifuges – Libya decided to give up her nuclear ambition after seeing the attack by USA on Iraq.

      • RonaldB says

        May 31, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Yes.

        And for complying with the requirements of the US, Gaddafi was rewarded by being overthrown and murdered by a US-sponsored coup, initiated by Hillary Clinton and supported by Obama…or, was it the other way around?

        One can be charitable and say that the Libyan policy was horribly mistaken, but the idea that Hillary and Obama had any benefit to the US in mind rests on some very thin ice. The Gaddafi overthrow policy of course received the support of the Republican neo-cons, the very ones not refusing to support Trump.

        • Mazo says

          May 31, 2016 at 9:11 pm

          In 2011 Trump supported intervention in Libya you clown. He seems to have suffered convenient amnesia when it comes to remembering this.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 1, 2016 at 7:13 am

          Huh, so what? Was Trump responsible for the death of Gaddafi at the hands of your more devout coreligionists?

        • gravenimage says

          May 31, 2016 at 9:20 pm

          Notice that the appalling Muslim supremacist Mazo has no problems with Pakistan threatening to destroy Delhi. But then, why would he? *Ugh*.

    • Jack Diamond says

      May 31, 2016 at 12:58 pm

      “Khan was disgraced in 2004”–he was and is a national hero in Pakistan whom the U.S. was kept from interviewing. Pakistan also took a fortune in American aid ($4 billion 1982-1990) while lying that it would not need or develop nuclear weapons if it received enough military assistance. All the while they were working on them from Khan’s stolen secrets. What’s a few billions between friends?

  4. Angemon says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Nuclear-armed Pakistan has the ability to “target” the Indian capital Delhi in five minutes, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said.

    Brave words for a thieving little bugger…

  5. baconator says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    The name of the Pakistani capital city says it all. ISLAMaBAD.

    The anniversary of Pakistan detonating its nukes (Chinese design) is celebrated as their national holiday. Borrowed nuclear is all they got. Muslim Pakistanis have nothing else to be proud off.

    India sends spacecraft to moon and Mars and now planning on a space shuttle. I am sure that the Indians have enough nukes to wipe Pakistan off the face of the planet, with a few more to spare for Mecca and Medina.

  6. SD says

    May 30, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    Pakistan must be the first muslim country that gets nuked when ww3 goes nuclear, once they’re gone the rest of the Muslim countries will be easy pickings, like corn on a field we will cut them one by one with nuclear blades.

  7. killerjools says

    May 30, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    I really don’t think the 4th most powerful military in the world is that worried about the mad mutterings of a senile old criminal like Khan.

  8. Jack Holan says

    May 30, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    -4minutes Pakistan will be a Large Parking Lot. Don’t forget the previous 3-wars! They went badly after Pakistan talked it up to scare New Delhi. Khan even at your age you can go to trial. Good advice would be to be humble.

  9. sidney penny says

    May 30, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    “Without my services Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation.”

    The jihad continues in Pakistan,Created for Muslims( the only reason) but many Muslims in India did not go there in 1957.

    if it is not jihad what is it?

    3 wars started by Pakistan.They lost all three and they will lose any more wars, big or small ,started by Pakistan.

  10. Concerned Indian says

    May 30, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    Why listen to a lowlife,petty thief and a smuggler?He is not a nuclear scientist but a metallurgist.

  11. Baconator says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    Djinni Power:
    Pakistan’s nuclear program’s award winning atomic “expert”
    Mr. Bashiruddin Mahmood has published papers concerning djinni, which are described in the Koran as beings made of fire. He has proposed that these entities could be tapped to solve the energy crisis, and he has written on how to understand the mechanics of life after death.

    ”He seems to have played a very important role in the whole spectrum of the Pakistani program of plutonium production and uranium enrichment,” said David Albright….

    Read on…..

  12. Baconator says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/world/nation-challenged-nuclear-fears-pakistani-atomic-expert-arrested-last-week-had.html?pagewanted=all

  13. DP111 says

    May 31, 2016 at 5:41 am

    The trouble is that Pakistan would sacrifice itself as long as all of India was destroyed. The reasoning is that as most Hindus live in India, Hinduism would be annihilated, while in retaliation, only Pakistan would be destroyed. Thus, the umma would be virtually intact. In Muslim eyes that would be a victory. Pakistani men would all be martyrs, eligible for 72 virgins.Who gives a shiite for women?

    The correct way for the MAD to work, is that India should target the entire Umma in Islamic countries. Pakistan’s bluster would then not be possible.

    That way one avoids a nuclear war..

    Unlike the USSR, we are dealing with people who love death, as they lust after those virgins. For deterrence to work, one needs to think a little bit further.

  14. DP111 says

    May 31, 2016 at 5:54 am

    We are about one third the way into the war planned by GWB and NATO, after 9/11.

    Sooner or later all Islamic countries will be made to give up their nukes. Pakistan can be given an ultimatum by the US. “Give up the nukes, or face the consequences”. What can Pakistan do against a US ultimatum? Npthing. Its missiles are useless once the American missile shield is operational. They cant launch, as they would be annihilated by the US.

    In this world we live in, it is clear to me anyway, that one cant have nuclear weapons in the hands of people who love death, as they are convinced they will be going to a 72 virgin paradise. We can have nukes and no Islam, or Islam and no nukes, but not both. And certainly not nukes in Muslim hands.

  15. DP111 says

    May 31, 2016 at 6:13 am

    John Hagee – “World War 3 is Underway”

  16. TH says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:51 am

    If INdia got nuke, I think the first thing they would do would be to talk out Mecca and destory the Kabba. LIkewise Israel. The muzzies ought to be careful. What would Islam do without the Kabba?

    • Jack Diamond says

      May 31, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      This idea keeps recurring, that Islam will be defeated by the bombing of Mecca or the Ka’ba.
      First, the building has been destroyed, ruined, rebuilt numerous times in the past. Second there are prophecies Muslims are quite familiar with, about the destruction of the Ka’ba shortly before the end times. It is something they expect to happen, not something unthinkable (even ISIS is threatening to destroy it). It would be devastating certainly but in no way a final solution.

      Muslims quote Muhammad that the blood of a Muslim is even more sacred than the Ka’ba:

      In the Targhib wa’ l-Tarhib of Imam al-Mundhiri, 3/276 it has the following hadith from `Abd Allah ibn `Amr ibn al-`As (Allah be well pleased with him) that he said:

      “I saw the Messenger of Allah (saw) performing tawaf around the Holy Ka`ba saying to it: ‘how pure and good you are! how pure and good your fragrance is! how great and exalted you are! and how great and exalted your sanctity is! But by Him in Whose hand is Muhammad’s soul, the sanctity of a believer’s blood and property in the sight of Allah is greater than your sanctity!’“

  17. mortimer says

    May 31, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Quote: “Nuclear-armed Pakistan can ‘target’ Delhi in 5 minutes”

    Yes, but India can target Islamabad in two minutes!

  18. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 31, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Is that so bad?
    India & Pakistan sitting in a tree, d-i-s-s-i-n-g
    Moslem nuke nations are all set to proliferate
    John & Barack lying to you & me, w-i-s-h-i-n-g
    Nuclear Moslems want to die for a hot Jannat date

  19. Face_The_Truth says

    May 31, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    With so many commentators’ passionate posts above, my post here may be deemed redundant.

    Even so, here is my two cents for all of you.

    Of course, the Islamic State of Pakistan can strike Indian capital city within 5 minutes with Pakistanian “Islamic bombs” (i.e., Pakistanians call their nukes “Islamic bombs”) in order to annihilate all “Hindus”, which is quite similar to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ability to wipe of the map the Jewish State of Israel in less than 10 minutes with Iranian nuclear bombs!

    However, these are all grandiose rhetorics of self-importance and nothing else.

    Jihad Watch website may be better off not including these sorts of meaningless news stories anyway.

    Common sense tells us that there will not be a nuclear war between Pakistanians and Indians or between Russians and Americans or between South Koreans and North Koreans or between Iranians and Israelis as long as the first offender has a return address on the face of the map of earth.

    So, I will be for totally nuclear-armed Middle East as well as the Far East.

    Nuclear weapons serve as reasonable deterrents.

    Aside from that, the Govt. of India is busy with increasing its economic strength, not with wasting money to fight countless wars with a economically bankrupt country called Pakistan.

    Today’s Pakistanians, however, sincerely hope that 300 million Indian Muslims will one day remake the entire India into a “Hindustan” as the name “Hindustan” was originally given to the “Hindu Bharat Rashtra” by Muslim invaders during Middle Age.

    • Face_The_Truth says

      Jun 1, 2016 at 11:10 am

      Aside from that, the Govt. of India is busy with increasing its economic strength, not with wasting money to fight countless wars with an economically bankrupt country called Pakistan.
      _______________________________________________

      Indian economy is growing over 7% a year whereas Pakistan’s economy is basically agrarian and feudalistic and is dependent American govt.’s financial largesse and continued American military assistance for long-term survival.

      Current governor of Indian Federal Reserve Bank, Professor Raghuram Govind Rajan’s primary objective now is to cut inflation in Indian economy in order to make India economically and financially great again!

      LINK

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghuram_Rajan

      Islamic State of Pakistan is a client state of American govt. and, as a result, as long as Washington wants the Islamic State of Pakistan will continue to exist.

      Once America stops supporting Egypt and Pakistan, these two hardcore Sunni Islamic countries — ruled by Islamic military junta — will collapse like a house of cards!

      Thereby, American govt. in Washington is responsible for aiding and abetting an Islamic terrorist country called Pakistan.

      Iranians have oils that can be exported to Europe and Asia whereas Pakistan’s primary commodity for export is Sunni Islamic terrorism for worldwide non-Muslims’ consumption.

      • Face_The_Truth says

        Jun 1, 2016 at 11:14 am

        Indian economy is growing over 7% a year whereas Pakistan’s economy is basically moribund and agrarian and feudalistic and is dependent on American govt.’s financial largesse and on continued American and British military assistance for long-term survival.

  20. Jaladhi says

    May 31, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    Hey, what’s a little redundancy while describing these sleaze bags! LOL..

    And lets not exaggerate the number of the followers of ROP to 300 million – right now they are about 150 million in the country and could increase to 300 million in next 30-40 years with their rabbit breeding rate. At that time they will do everything to convert Hindu India into Muslim India!

    • Jaladhi says

      May 31, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      This was a reply to Face_The _Truth’s comments above.

  21. Truth says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 1:19 pm

    And the surviving 700 million Indians would invade and conquer Pakistan, hanging all Pakistan men.

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