Pakistan will soon contact Iran about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's revelation about the US plan to sabotage Pakistan's nuclear facilities, a leading Pakistani daily reported on Thursday.
Pakistani security institutions were alarmed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Tuesday statement that Washington was planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities.
According to a senior security official, Pakistan would be keen to get the details of Iran’s intelligence information, daily The News reported.
Speaking at a media conference in the Iranian capital, Ahmadinejad said, “We have precise information that America wants to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistan and to weaken the government and the people of Pakistan.”
The president added, “The United States would then use the UN Security Council and some other international bodies as levers to prepare the ground for a massive presence on Pakistan and weaken the national sovereignty of Pakistan.”
Washington has though given repeated assurances to Islamabad that it has nothing against Pakistan’s nuclear devices, Pakistani authorities do not trust the Americans.
“We know that the ultimate objective of the United States here is not to get a piece of land but to target our nuclear facilities,” The News quoted sources as saying.
It is said that Pakistan had been voicing its concerns even to the US authorities but in a diplomatic manner. However, the Iranian president has said the same thing in a candid and frank manner. It is said that even Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has conveyed to US President Obama his growing apprehensions that the US was deliberately creating chaos within Pakistan in order to denuclearise Pakistan. IRNA
