‘Nuclear assets to be secured at all costs’

ISPR says a powerful, independent force has been formed to ‘face all threats’.

ISLAMABAD: The Strategic Plans Division has assured that the country’s nuclear installations and assets will be safeguarded at all costs.

Addressing the passing out parade of newly-trained officials of the SPD, its director-general security Major General Muhammad Tahir said that the 700 new officials have completed their training to serve at the division.

According to an Inter-Services Public Relations press statement, he said that a powerful and independent force has been prepared to face all kinds of threats. He said that the newly-inducted members have completed a six-month training programme.

The SPD has already completed a comprehensive plan under which 8,000 people were inducted in the Nuclear Security Force.

Writers Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder, for the US magazine The Atlantic, claimed that Pakistan is “an obvious place” for militants to seek nuclear weapons or materials because of a weak government and infiltration of its security forces by militant sympathisers.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 7^th,  2011.