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"They (nuclear weapons) are very secure. We will ask if we need assistance. Nobody should tell us what to do. And I'd ask anyone who says such things, do you know how our strategic assets are handled, stored and developed--do you know it?" President Musharraf told the Newsweek magazine in a wide-ranging interview.
Pakistan's border region has emerged as a frontline in the war on terror after Islamabad allied itself with the Washington following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US. Scores of suicide attacks have taken place in Pakistan in recent months, including the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto on December 27.
With increasing turmoil, international experts and politicians in the US have raised doubts about the security of the Pakistani nuclear weapons. The issue has also become a major topic of debate among the presidential candidates.
President Musharraf dismissed Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's recent suggestion that the US and Britain should help Pakistan secure its nuclear weapons.
"Does she know how secure [the weapons] are and what we are doing to keep them so? They are very secure. We will ask if we need assistance," the Pakistani leader told the US magazine.
With regard to suggestions by some experts that the weapons must be disbursed for them to have "survivability", President Musharraf said: "We are from the military, we understand how to handle things, whether they need to be disbursed or concentrated."
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RatingThey are unable to safeguard their country their leaders and have the audacity to say they can secure nukes, what rubbish. They already have leaked nuke technology to rogue countries, their army personals are surrendering to terrorists without fighting and they claim their nukes are safe, all BS.As the other guy says those nukes are already in terrorists hands, the whole world knows that Pakistan is promoting terrorism, and today they are sucking money from the west in tunes of billions
The Paki nuclear weapons are already in the hands of terrorists. They have not used them till now only because their stock is not very large. If they use them up, their value for blackmail and extortion is lost. ..... The "terrorists" referred to are Musharraf and co.
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