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Early Times Report
Jammu,November 10:- Pakistan has rejected any move from any quarter for assisting Islamabad in strengthening the security grid in and around its nuclear assets.While reacting on a news report that the US had offered to either provide financial aid to Islamabad for upgrading the security cover around it s nuclear arsenal or for sending its units of troops specially trained for this exercise the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee,Gen.Tariq Majid,announced that Pakistan did not need any foreign help to guard its nuclear assets and facilit ies.
According to reports reaching here from cross the border Gen.Majid stated that "our nuclear arsenals were well protected."He said that there were very stringent custodial and access control. In the statement Gen.Majid has tried to allay fears in the mind of the American authorities that the nuclear arsenal in Pakistan could fall in the hands of terrorists.It is in this context the US had offered help to Pakistan for redoubling the security cover.
However,Pakistani authorities have claimed that their securioty apparatus "had been fully geared to meet conceivable challenges."As such Islamabad neither r equired any financial assistance nor any direct foreign interference or access to the nuclear assets.Reports said that the US fears over the possibile terrorist attack on Islamabad's nuclear arsenal had mounted after the terrorists were able to carry out ser ies of bomb explosions and sucide strikes in various parts of Pakiostan,including the sensitive and safe areas,during the last two months.
There were fears that terrorists may avenge their defeat in the Swat valley and in Waziristan by t rying to gain control of Pakistan's nuclear assets and facilities. It seems that the establishment in Islamabad besides the Army authorities ar e confident over the existing security cover under which its nuclear arsenal has been brought.For the time being the debate on foreign help for guarding Pakistan's nuclear assetsed.(eom).
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