law which allows US to invade a country and confiscate “weapons of mass destruction.”
The legislation titled Lugar-Obama Act was passed in 2009 which is a continuation of Nunn-Lugar Act of 1991 which talked of providing security to the nukes of a country whereas Lugar-Obama Act expanded the legislation to sting operations to confiscate the nuclear weapons.
Defence Analyst Maria Sultan who is also the Director General South Asian Strategic Stability Institute while talking to The News said that Lugar-Obama Act was a continuation of Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme which was used to unarm Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus and in 2003 it was said that there was no need of any other cooperative Threat Reduction Programme but instead of finishing it, United States started another legislation in 2006 which was initiated by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar and in 2009 the 109th Congress session passed it.
Maria said that in attacks on PNS Mehran in Karachi and General Headquarters, strategic assets have been targeted and such attacks only benefit the larger agenda of international forces. She said that the US policy was linked with Ronald Reagan Defence Authorization Act which was followed by Nunn-Lugar Act and now the Lugar-Obama Act and through the latest legislation US can do anything against nukes. More >>>
Location: Islamabad
