Allegations of Pakistan using Chemical Weapons against Baloch

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Ok this is a shocking allegation been made by Baloch freedom fighters. Requires further corroboration. If true, this is a serious turn of events. After Iraq and Syria allegedly using chemical weapons in its own people, this will be the third case. It will require international attention and condemnation.

I am trying to get the veracity of the claim.
 

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Ok this is a shocking allegation been made by Baloch freedom fighters. Requires further corroboration. If true, this is a serious turn of events. After Iraq and Syria allegedly using chemical weapons in its own people, this will be the third case. It will require international attention and condemnation.

I am trying to get the veracity of the claim.
The technical means to verify use of chemical warfare agents is widely available.
 

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Chemical Weapons??

Is "World Community" going to do anything about it?? :hmm:
 

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When will US sponsor an UNHRC resolution against Pakistan?

Or will they stay Strategically/Tactically blind till 2014?

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The technical means to verify use of chemical warfare agents is widely available.
You guys are right there. If should be easy for you. Surprising that the US continues to ignore all such deeds of Pakistan.
 

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You guys are right there. If should be easy for you. Surprising that the US continues to ignore all such deeds of Pakistan.
more than million army men and billion $$ worth of equipment need to go via karachi port
 

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International condemnation, no.

It will require international intervention. Do chemical weapons were the redline for Syria, don't? So, why Pakistan will be treated just with light hand?

Unless for US all the states of world aren't equal toward international law. :tsk:
 

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You guys are right there. If should be easy for you. Surprising that the US continues to ignore all such deeds of Pakistan.
Pakistan | Country Profiles | NTI
Pakistan is not known to have ever possessed a chemical weapons (CW) program. The country has signed and ratified the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and is a member in good standing of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...[1]

Pakistan has also been accused of supplying chemical weapons or chemical substances to non-state actors. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union alleged that Pakistan had armed insurgents battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan with cartridges and grenades containing toxic chemicals. [12] In the mid-1990s, the deposed Afghan government similarly accused Pakistan of supplying the Taliban militia with chemical weapons. [13] However, neither of these claims could be independently verified. In 1998, Indian police officials reportedly seized two kilograms of cyanide and the anesthetic flouthene from Sikh separatists in the state of Punjab. Punjab police officials subsequently identified the Pakistani military's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate as the source of the chemicals, and alleged that the arrested militants intended to poison the water supply or to target a military or paramilitary base in the country. [14] There is no independent evidence to support the Indian officials' assertions...

Subsequent to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, evidence surfaced that senior Pakistani nuclear scientists Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed may have helped Al-Qaeda develop concepts for the aerial dispersion of chemical and biological warfare agents. [15] In 2002, Pakistani police also unearthed chemical laboratories belonging to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant Islamic group with links to Al-Qaeda, in the port city of Karachi. Investigations revealed that the group was preparing to produce poisonous gases for a possible terrorist attack. [16] It appears that these groups and individuals were acting independently without the knowledge or support of the Pakistani government.
 

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Pakistan
In 1991 Rear Admiral Thomas Brooks identified Pakistan as a "probable" chemical weapons possessor in testimony before Congress. However, more recent analyses indicate that although Pakistan, as many other countries with well-developed chemical industry, has technical capabilities for the production of chemical weapons, there is no evidence that it has ever possessed such weapons. Pakistan has ratified CWC in 1997 and did not declare any offensive activities in this area.[9]
See also Naela Chohan, First woman and civilian to head the National Authority on the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Pakistan.
Chemical weapon proliferation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Naela Chohan (Urdu: نائلہ چوہان, alternative spelling Naila Chohan) (born 6 May 1958 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani diplomat and feminist artist. She has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Film Censor Board, and of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Employment Corporation of Pakistan, and Inter State Gas System (Pvt). Naela Chohan is also committed to the prohibition of global Chemical Weapons, being the first civilian and woman to head the National Authority on the Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical weapons in Pakistan.[1] She is an alumnus of Quaid-e-Azam University, the Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques, The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École du Louvre, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Naela Chohan is currently serving as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador. She has been a vocal proponent of stronger ties between Pakistan and Latin America.[2][3]
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So, as per US, "India cries wolf" is now "Balochi cries wolf"? :rolleyes:
 

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Trust the pakis at your own peril. When will you guys learn about the deceptive ways of Pak?

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Like India, Pakistan has numerous munitions systems which could be used to deliver CW agent, including artillery, aerial bombs, and missiles. Pakistan has a less-well developed commercial chemical industry than India, but is expected to eventually have the capability to produce all precursor chemicals needed to support a chemical weapons stockpile.

Pakistan's market for industrial chemicals is expanding gradually, with production of chemicals largely confined to soda ash, caustic soda, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, liquid chlorine, aluminum sulfate, carbon black, acetone and acetic acid. Although imports account for most of the market, local production is expected to increase as new plants come on stream. There are over 400 licensed pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan, including 35 multinationals who have over 60 percent of the market share. Approximately one-third of Pakistan's total consumption of pharmaceutical is imported. Major suppliers include the United States, the U.K,, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Holland and France.

Pakistan has ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention [CWC], and maintained that it did not have any chemical weapons capabilities to declare under the Convention. However, according to Indian intelligence estimates, Pakistan -- dependent on foreign sources of chemical warfare technology -- has manufactured weapons for blister, blood, choking and nerve agents. China may be an important supplier of technology and equipment to Pakistan. It is widely believed in India that Pakistan used chemical weapons against Indian soldiers in Siachen in 1987. In 1992 India declared to Pakistan that it did not possess chemical weapons, and India and Pakistan issued a declaration that neither side possessed or intended to acquire or use chemical weapons.

In conformity with its declared policy of seeking the complete elimination of weapons of mass destruction from the South Asian theatre of tensions, Pakistan participated in the long negotiations leading to the conclusion of Chemical Weapons Convention. Despite concerns and reservations regarding certain provisions of the CWC which were articulated at the time of the Convention's conclusion as well as subsequently, Pakistan signed the CWC to underscore a commitment to the objective of the complete elimination, regionally and globally, of this means of warfare.

The entry into force of the Convention revealed the reality of the presence of Indian chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities designed to be used against Pakistan. This created a qualitatively new situation for Pakistan and complicated the decision to ratify the Convention. The rightwing religious/political movement Jamaat-e-Islami, led by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, held rallies to mobilise public opinion against CWC ratification. Adding to the controversy were statements of retired generals such as Hamid Gul and Mirza Aslam Beg, charged that Pakistan had made a major compromise by signing the CWC.

Despite these challenges, the Government of Pakistan submited its instrument of ratification to the CWC on 28 October 1997. The CWC was neither discussed in the parliament nor brought before the Federal Cabinet. Although Pakistan does not admit to the manufacture of chemical weapons, it does use and consume a number of chemicals that can be utilised for producing chemical arms. If Pakistan had remained out of the treaty it would have been denied access to such dual-use chemicals.

Under the CWC Pakistan is obligated to open all its installations for inspection. At the first stage, the team of UN inspectors visited the Wah Ordinance Factory on 19 February 1999to assess whether Pakistan is producing chemical weapons. According to one published report, the Pakistani government had dismantled the chemical plant in the factory, the earth was dug up quite deeply after the plant was dismantled, and it was followed by a leveling of the land.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/pakistan/cw/index.html
 

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