Musharraf Reasserts Pakistan’s Nuclear Status

Pakistan has no plans to abandon its nuclear arsenal, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said yesterday (see GSN, June 22).

“We are a nuclear state, and we continue to be a nuclear state — we have missiles and nuclear capability and we will continue on this path,” Musharraf said after a meeting with Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki.

Musharraf also denied that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal poses proliferation concerns. “There is no question that these can fall into the hands of extremists … we have plugged all the holes that were there in the past,” he said (Mans Hulden, Associated Press, July 7).

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