After nearly a week of self imposed embargo on death and mayhem, I decided to take a look at the news again while eating lunch today. The first thing I stumbled upon is this Guardian article, which says that Pakistan is building a 1,000MW reactor that is capable of generating more than 200kg (440lbs) of weapons-grade plutonium per year. Yippee General M! What a way to go. Pliss be sending me a kilo in mail around Id for cheering you.

I am now not as anti-nukes as I was before; I have come to believe that in the geo-political jungle, a plutonium tipped spear is a good thing for a "non-dope smoking" pigmy man or woman to have, even though I recognize the fact that to define who is stoned vs. who is not, will always be semantically challenging. But pyare subcontinental bhaiyon, aren't the 50-100 odd nuke tipped "bamboos" we each have enough already for our MADness, i.e., Mutually Assured Destruction-ness, under a nice warm mushroom cloud blankey? I guess not. But then there might be another possibility, yes that of the dreaded "Videshi Haath" aka Foreign Hand:

"There is speculation in Delhi that the new plant may be a fresh sign of China's commitment to a "strategic partnership" with Pakistan. The pair already have extensive military and diplomatic ties.

"China has supported Pakistan since the 80s and it remains the wild card here," Commodore Bhaskar said. "At the time of the Indo-US deal, there were clear indications that Beijing thought if Washington can assist India, China can aid Pakistan.""

So are we now just pawns-boys in Uncle Sam and Bhai Mao's - pedophiles both I tell you, so watch out - chess (or mahjongg, checkers etc) games?

Second time I am cribbing about this. For some reason your site publishes only about 200 words of each post in the feed. It really upsets me. :( Please do the needful.

Pweafe.