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- (File photo) Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff - AFP.
US on Friday expressed apprehension that the nuclear weapons and technology of Pakistan might fall into the hands of terrorists and thus stressed on having the lines of communications open with Islamabad.
"It's a country with an awful lot of terrorists on that border," Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a joint Pentagon news conference with the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates.
"Things that I fear in the future, it's the proliferation of that technology, and it's the opportunity and the potential that it could fall into the hands of terrorists, many of whom are alive and well and seek that in that region. And that's of great interest, I think, to our country and certainly to the rest of the world," Mullen said in response to a question.
Gates argued the US strategy against terrorism is succeeding and Pakistan is playing a contributory role to that.
"It is important to remember that they have 140,000 troops on that border, that at a minimum are stirring things up. They basically cleared South Waziristan and Swat. But even their presence and manoeuvring and so on creates uncertainty," he noted.
Safety of the Nuclear Assets of Pakistan has always been a grave concern for India and many other members of the International Community and the same fears have been constant.
However, US give full safety certificate to Pakistan, whenever it received full cooperation in its 'war-against-terror' and whenever Pak refused such cooperation they raise the bogey of 'Nuclear Safety' to give pressure through IAEA and members of International Community.
This kind of flip-flop manipulations would boomerang on its face, at the end!
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