Pakistan Denies Claim of Lost Uranium

Pakistan yesterday denied a Time magazine report this week that 16 containers of uranium hexafluoride gas were missing from the Khan Research Laboratories, according to Agence France-Presse (see GSN, Feb. 7).

“Our inventory is complete and nothing is missing from KRL,” Information Minister Sheikh Rashid said.

Pakistan is still investigating the international nuclear network revealed last year by top scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan.

“We have not closed investigations. If new fresh leads emerge we would like to check them out and if fresh evidence is furnished to us we would like to look into that,” he said.

"We have done more than any other country in the world. There are other countries ... it was alleged that they were involved in the international black market. We are yet to see if they are looking for skeletons in their cupboards,” Khan added (Agence France-Presse/TurkishPress.com, Feb. 7).

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