why exactly would we need taliban to nuke india. for years we have been testing missiles that can carry nuclear payloads. presumably these would be a more logical choice compared to the completely untested and relatively slow mechanism of having a guy crossing the border with a nuclear bomb at a time when you would be more likely to have security checks.
the reason the newspaper is being criticised is that short of indian newspapers you would not find this elderly retired senators boneheaded statement as headline news material. there is a total one blog that I have been able to find that even mentions the sentence explicitly, such is the contrast between how mature press reports these things versus how the indian hysterics machine does.
isn’t that the job of a newspaper? or do you want a newspaper to make a judgement call that the report if a US Commission on WMD is negligible and instead they should print one more column about some actress’s dog losing weight?