Pak ‘most dangerous country’ of the world: US Rep leader

“I think,personally,that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world,” Republican leader and the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich told a local news channel in an interview. Gingrich said Pakistan today has more nuclear weapons available than Iran or Korea will have in a decade. “We don’t know what’s going to happen there,” he said. “What people have to worry about is not that the Taliban is going to come out in the open field with an army. What they have to worry about is that every week that goes by more and more Islamist extremists in the cities are migrating to join the Taliban. And you may presently see an explosion in the cities,” Gingrich argued.

He said Pakistan is now a country that has nuclear weapons and “hates” India,next door,”doesn’t particularly” like Afghanistan because its President Hamid Karzai was educated in India and has a deep distrust of the US. “I think people have to understand how dangerous this is,” he added.

Worried about what’s going to happen in Pakistan,Gingrich said: “None of the indicators are good. There’s no indicator that we are gaining ground in Pakistan. If you lose Pakistan,you’re going to lose Afghanistan because you have no corridor to get there. You have no capacity to sustain your logistics.”

The former House Speaker said a whole generation of Pakistan Army officials,in particular younger ones,find themselves closer to the Taliban ideology. “People I talk to say,because the US Congress cut off all military education for a decade,there’s a whole generation of younger officers who have no real connection in the US. And so when you get below the general officers to the Colonels and the Majors and the Lieutenant Colonels,you’re seeing people who are more extremist,more anti-American,more potentially capable of a coup,” he argued.