Pakistan’s president has given assurances his country’s nuclear weapons are not at risk of falling into the hands of the Taliban.
As the Taliban extends its influence closer to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington could not contemplate the possibility of a nuclear-armed Taliban.
President Asif Ali Zardari said “I want to assure the world that the nuclear capability of Pakistan is under safe hands”.
President Zardari added that Pakistan has a strong command and control system in place for its nuclear weapons.
He also spoke about Osama bin Laden, saying his intelligence agencies had found no trace of the al-Qaeda chief, and there was a suspicion he could be dead.
But President Zardari stressed that could not be confirmed, despite the feeling that bin Laden ‘does not exist any more’.
Somehow I’m not feeling totally re-assured here.