Report on Pak nukes ’absurd, mischievous: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s strategic assets are as safe as that of any other nuclear weapon state and these assets are fully safeguarded and secure under the protection of a well-established command and control system, a Foreign Office (FO) spokesman said on Sunday.

When his attention was drawn to a news story published by "Times Online" on January 17 regarding the safety of Pakistan’s strategic assets, the spokesman dismissed its contents as "outlandish musings by an academic".

Talking to a Private TV Channel, he dismissed the report terming it as a conspiracy theory, saying that Pakistan nukes are safe and neither militants nor any other group was capable enough to take over the atomic assets.

The spokesman also rejected the suggestion that there is any danger of Pakistan’s strategic assets falling into the wrong hands. It may be recalled here a UK English daily on Sunday in a report said that The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one.