Chinese-Dragon
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Nuclear weapons are not the litmus test of the strength of a country. Is North Korea a strong country? The weapons they possess may be strong, but the country is weak, shaky, unstable.
Pakistan does not have independence, it is beholden to the interests of it's benefactors; China, Saudi Arabia and the United States. It is also a dirt poor country that is full of 10s of millions uneducated and impoverished people living with some of the World's worst standards of sanitation, limited access to justice and low quality education. Almost half the people there cannot even read and write according to their own reports. Pakistan has a terrible law and order problem that has led it's army having to also take on the role of police force and judiciary all in one and use it's own air force to bomb it's own territory. Just a few years ago more than a million of it's own people were forced from their homes to become internal refugees. It has little or no control over it's borders with either Iran or Afghanistan. It's bordering regions with us have no police or courts to speak of. They are safe havens for roaming gangs of criminals and terrorists.
These people need to stop burying their heads in the ground and get a grip. Pakistan is a very weak country faced with enormous challenges that they need to take very seriously and face up to. There is only so long that foreign aid will keep that country afloat before it implodes like some parts of it already have when they fell to Pakistan's own Taliban offshoot not too long ago.
Saudi Arabia is clearly placing a lot of undue pressue on Pakistan to do things that are against Pakistan's own interests.
Leaving aside nuclear weapons for a moment, there are around 200 countries in the world, and Pakistan's military is typically ranked amongst the top 15.
So even without nukes, you can't really call them a weak country.