On my blog entry Pak Red Button I said that US has taken command of the nuclear arsenal in akistan during the mayham in the country. Now there is a loud proclamation about it from the Pak army heirachy, saying that no foreign government can take the nuclear arsenal to a safer place.
"The security of Pakistan's estimated 50 nuclear warheads has been under global scrutiny since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency on November 3 citing Islamist violence and political turmoil.
But the chairman of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff, General Tariq Majid, blasted reports by "vested and hostile elements in the international media" about the security of its nuclear weapons, an army statement said.
"Suggestions have been made that our assets could either be neutralised or taken away towards safer place to prevent them from falling into wrong hands," the statement quoted Majid as saying after witnessing the launch of the locally developed Babur (Hatf 7) cruise missile.
"We remain alert to such threats and are fully capable of handling these.""
And then the big man himself, Mr Musharraf, is trying to take over the command of the National Command Authority (NCA), the body which is responsible for operating them.
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