Pakistan has strongly denied rumours about employing American guards to safeguard Pakistani nuclear installations stating there is no need for that.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly denied rumours about employing American guards to safeguard Pakistani nuclear installations stating there is no need for that.
The Pakistani foreign office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam, strongly refuting rumours about employing American guards for Pakistan’s nuclear installations in a weekly briefing on Monday defended Pakistan’s legitimate nuclear needs, saying it is a well-laid clear-cut policy of the
country.
She vehemently denied reports that US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns or any other American official had ever been allowed to meet Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, and denied signing of any defence treaty with visiting the Saudi Prince. But she affirmed Pakistan’s continued defence cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
Tasneem further denied a Time magazine report about a broader government-to-government Pak-Saudi atomic collaboration.
She denied contents of the report saying that a chartered Saudi C-130 Hercules transporter made scores of trips between the Dhahran military base and several Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, between October 2003 and October 2004.
She further denied reports that between October 2004-January 2005, under cover of Haj several Pakistani scientists visited Riyadh, and they were missing from their designated hotels for periods of between fifteen to twenty days.
To a question, she said further talks on the Wular Barrage have been postponed for the time being and new dates for the meeting would be announced later.
Replying to yet another question, she said that postponement of talks on Wular Barrage would not effect the second phase of talks, and decisive talks would be held on the issue in the nearest future.
“The Baghlihar dam issue is under active review of neutral foreign experts, and Pakistan is constantly in touch with the latest developments. The next meeting of the experts would be held in May, in which the case would be further studied”, she added.
Tasneem rejected Indian media reports about the presence of India’s notorious smuggler, Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan. She also strongly refuted any connection between bomb blasts in Varanasi and Karachi. We condemn them both.
She further reiterated Pakistan’s joint global efforts in war against terrorism and assured Pakistan’s continued support and commitment to the Kashmir cause, for lifetime.
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