ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will soon contact Iran to get details about the US plan to sabotage its nuclear facilities as suspicion about the US conspiracy to denuclearise the only nuclear Islamic state grew after the Iranian president’s latest statement, it was learnt.
Pakistani security institutions were alarmed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Tuesday statement that Washington was planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. According to a senior security official source, Pakistan also has indications about what the Iranian president has referred to. The source said that Pakistan would be keen to get the details of Iran’s intelligence information.
Speaking at a media conference in the Iranian capital, Ahmadinejad said, “We have precise information that America wants to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistan and to weaken the government and the people of Pakistan.” The president added, “The United States would then use the UN Security Council and some other international bodies as levers to prepare the ground for a massive presence (in Pakistan) and weaken the national sovereignty of Pakistan.”
The Iranian president did not give details nor revealed the source of his information but Pakistani authorities, which got alarmed by this extremely- serious warning from Iran, would soon contact the Iranian authorities to get the precise details of the US plot against Pakistan’s nukes.
Washington has though given repeated assurances to Islamabad that it has nothing against Pakistan’s nuclear devices, Pakistani authorities do not trust the Americans. “We know that the ultimate objective of the United States here is not to get a piece of land but to target our nuclear facilities,” the source said.
It is said that Pakistan had been voicing its concerns even to the US authorities but in a diplomatic manner. However, the Iranian president has said the same thing in a candid and frank manner. It is said that even Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has conveyed to US President Obama his growing apprehensions that the US was deliberately creating chaos within Pakistan in order to denuclearise Pakistan.
“It is an issue of Pakistan’s national security, which cannot be compromised,” the source said, adding Pakistan’s nuclear facilities are well-guarded whereas our nuclear command and control system is one of the best.
Senator John Kerry, Chairman Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate, had assured the Pakistani authorities during his last visit to Islamabad that Washington was not after Pakistan’s nukes. He said that he could even write with his blood that the US was not after Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
However, there is no dearth of statements and media reports coming out of Washington, which have been casting serious aspersions on Pakistan’s nuclear programme. The European and American media has even been propagating what is considered here as nonsensical but conspiratorial campaign against Pakistan’s nuclear programme that al-Qaeda and Taliban could capture Pakistan’s nuclear devices.


Pakistan to seek details from Iran on US plot