Pak nuke safe from extremists: Kidwai
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan has tightened security around all its nuclear facilities, said Lieutenant General (Retd) Khalid Kidwai, Director General of the Strategic Plans Division. He also made it clear that no specific threat had been made against the sites.
He said that about 10,000 soldiers were deployed to secure the facilities and provide intelligence under a command and control system headed by President Pervez Musharraf and other top military and political leaders. “There is no conceivable scenario, political or violent, in which Pakistan will fall to extremists of the al-Qaida or Taliban type,” Kidwai said at a briefing for foreign journalists.
He said his division still plans for any contingency and has reassessed the militant threat in light of escalating attacks on security forces and intelligence personnel, although it had received no intelligence of a terrorist plot against the nuclear facilities.“The fears are based on a lack of objective understanding of Pakistan’s ground situation and lack of information,” he said. He said there was no way the Taliban or Al-Qaeda could take over Pakistan’s estimated 50 nuclear warheads.-SANA
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