A great news-Pakistan hits out at UN nuclear chief

[Nafees]

A GREAT NEWS

Pakistan rejected the UN nuclear chief's criticism of its atomic weapons safety yesterday, saying its arsenal would not fall into the hands of extremists and chastising his "irresponsible" remarks.

Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told a weekly press briefing that Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), should "be careful about his statements and ought to remain within his mandate".
"Pakistan is a responsible nuclear weapons state," he said.

"Our nuclear weapons are as secure as any other nuclear weapons state. We therefore believe statements expressing concern about their safety and security are unwarranted and irresponsible."

The response followed ElBaradei's reported remarks to the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday.

He was quoted as saying he feared "chaos... or an extremist regime could take root in that country, which has 30 to 40 warheads", and was "worried that nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of an extremist group in Pakistan or in Afghanistan".

 

[mujahideen]

The U.N. or any other nation has no right to comment on an internal matter of Pakistan. I personally am tired of people talking about the safety of our weapons. They are our weapons we give then to who ever we want to and do with them. These are our weapons, we made them and to build them we have given great sacrifices, we will not under any circumstances surrender them.

 

[BATMAN]

I think whole nation should hit out at UN or IAEA.
We should demand their appologies from Pak nation.

Look by your self the Nuclear lapses of 2007.
Tag: Nuclear accidents - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I think UN has turned prejudice to the level of a blind.

 

[IceCold]

All this time i was just wondering why hasnt ElBaradei criticised pakistani nukes and there he goes.
What is UN? Its nothing more then a tool in the hands of the west to be used to bully smaller nations. So remarks of EBaradei doesnt supprise me at all.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

The IAEA went against the grain on Iraq, and denied the US legitimacy in the eyes of the world. It has also adopted a stance on Iran that has irritated the US, and was vindicated to some extent by the NIE that came out recently. I think that it has acted with responsibility for the most part. This statement of Baradei's however is "outside his mandate", and I believe the IAEA has moved to smooth over the issue.