The request of US to gain access to the Pakistan's nuclear aresenal was so silly that it did not deserve any serious comments from anyone or even a response from Pakistani officials. If US is thinking that it is setting up a some kind of a pretext for attacking Pakistan and taking over nuclear aresenal,then US is sadly mistaken.
In 2001,US was able to coerce and bluff Musharraf who was the lone decision maker,in the war against Afghanistan,for which Pakistan has suffered and paid dearly Now all decisions are made by the People of Pakistan through their duly elected representaties and under no circumstances the proud People of Pakistan are going to allow US or any other country to use its soil for military purposes or take over assets of any kind . Such irrational requests would only antagonize and infuriate Pakistanis and make job of US in Afghanistan even more diffucult.If US feels that it can pull off a fast one this time,then US is heading for a gravest miscalculation of all times.
US attacked and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan in a rash,aimless war just to get even for 9/11 attack without realizing that the condition of US inside Green Zone in Iraq and highly fortified areas in Afghanistan is no different than bank robbers who hold up a bank, make the peope inside the bank lie on their faces and then make demands upon the bank officials to deliver food ,water, money and a chopper ,while being surrounded by everyone in the city forgetting that it is the bank r
