Pakistan today claimed that their ‘modest’ nuclear programme was accident-free unlike that of India’s.
According to The Economic Times, Pakistani foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhary said at the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by the US president Barack Obama, “The International Atomic Energy Agency has recorded 2,734 nuclear incidents worldwide, including five in India, but not a single accident or breach happened in Pakistan, although our programme is 40 years old.”
“Pakistan has a modest nuclear program with full ownership of its people, essentially for its defence and not to threaten anyone,” he told reporters at the Pakistan embassy in the US.
He continued, “Pakistan’s nuclear installations are not only secure but the world also acknowledges that they are. Pakistan has worked very hard to ensure their security.
India, on the other hand, has an ambitious nuclear programme, and an equally ambitious conventional weapons programme, we have a modest programme because we feel we have the right to defend ourselves.”
“Pakistan has short-range and long-range missiles, and the purpose behind both is to deter aggression,” he added
He lashed out at the media for wrongly publicizing that Pakistan had the fastest-growing nuclear programme and that India’s was larger.
He also added that Pakistan’s preparedness was to counter the Indian threat.
“If the threat level increases we have to meet that and their conventional and nuclear levels are increasing too,” he said to the reporters according to The Economic Times.
