Tarek Fatah and His Masters Voice
This article by Tarek Fatah can be described as a classic yellow journalism a la NEWS OF THE WORLD genre. The article is so absurd, that it can only be published in Toronto Sun, not noted for excellence. This goes to show the credibility of the rest of the OP-ED articles in this newspaper. Its thesis is implying that Pakistani people, government, and Armed Forces had sinister designs towards Israel. As one of the few Pakistanis, who has travelled to Israel as part of professional duties. I have talked to several Israelis, they know that Pakistan’s Nuclear and Missile Program are defensive and a reaction to India’s introduction of nuclear and ballistic technology in the Pak-Hind Sub-Continent. Mr.Fatah’s knowledge about Pakistan’s missile technology is superficial, at best. For his information, none of Pakistan’scurrently deployed ballistic missiles have a range greater than 2500 Km. Tel Aviv is nearly 3600 Km from Islamabad.A Pakistani nuclear strike against Israel is not only implausible, but unthinkable, because such a strike would kills millions of Muslims, mostly Arabs, who live in Israel. This would also mean anhilation of the People of The Book, Torah and Zabur, The Psalms. Pakistan may have its fair share of lunatics, but, 180 million Pakistanis are part of the human family and care about other nations, even if, they are hostile to Pakistan. Therefore, Mr.Fatah should not only get his facts straight, and brain in care, before, letting loose with his pen. Also, a paper like Toronto Sun, should do a FACT CHECK, before publishing articles, which are full of inaccuracies!
BTW, This socalled fear-monger, does not know that mother of Imran Khan’s children, has Jewish parents, Sir James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. So There!
This is such a preposterous article that we would like our readers to judge for themselves.
Here is the factually inaccurate article by attention starved Tarek Fatah (Ref): A rebuttal also follows
Return of the mad nuclear scientist
By Tarek Fatah
Dr. A.Q. Khan, left, with Imran Khan — founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Like the rest of the West, Jerusalem seems incapable of sifting through the myriad of complexities that allow Pakistan, the most dangerous enemy of the West to escape scrutiny. Islamabad’s military capabilities are not restricted to nuclear bombs alone; it has deviously managed to squeeze billions of dollars from the very West its undeclared jihad wishes to destroy.
Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barak insists Iran is “determined to obtain nuclear weapons,” adding, “And they are getting closer. We are approaching what I’ve termed the immunity zone — the moment when Iran’s nuclear program will be sufficiently developed and secretly concealed, that it will be immune to any surgical attacks.” Israel is particularly concerned with Iran’s underground Fordo site buried deep inside a mountain near the city of Qom, where centrifuges are enriching uranium to 20 percent purity.
Well, unbeknownst to the Israelis and perhaps the Americans, the man who supplied the Iranians the centrifuges and who amassed a fortune selling stolen nuclear know-how from the Netherlands and components manufactured in Pakistan to Iran, Dr. A. Q. Khan is being set up to become the next president of nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Time magazine called this dangerous rogue scientist “The Merchant of Menace” in 2005 and had this to report on Khan’s Iranian connection: “… IAEA officials say, [A. Q.] Khan did establish contact with the Iranians. A key member of the network has told investigators that Iran bought centrifuges from Khan. The IAEA reports that the Khan network also provided Iran with blueprints to manufacture more P-1 and P-2 centrifuges.”
Seven years ago Time reported, “Khan is under house arrest, his every move monitored by Pakistani government agents. He is said to be in failing health,” predicting Khan “will probably live out his days a recluse.”
Not so fast.
The man Pakistan promised would never be allowed to peddle his nuclear wares again, is today a free man and has teamed up with the notorious pro-Taliban Pakistani politician, Imran Khan donning the title of ‘Patron’ of cricketer-turned politician’s political party.
While the anti-American Imran Khan is being groomed by Pakistan’s military-judicial-jihadi complex to take over as the country’s next prime minister after the 2013 elections, the mad scientist Dr. A. Q. Khan is being promoted as the country’s next president.
Already a Facebook page has emerged with the title “We want Imran Khan as PM and AQ Khan as president.”
The possibility of President A. Q. Khan of Pakistan is already creating waves in The Netherlands; Holland is to host the 2014 World Nuclear Security Summit where Pakistan will be at the table and some members of the Dutch media are raising the issue with alarm.
It seems neither the U.S. nor Israel have woken up to the scenario of a nuclear-armed Pakistan headed by a pro-Taliban prime minister and a rogue nuclear scientist as the president; one who admits to have sold nuclear parts and know-how to both Iran and North Korea.
