Pakistan trashes ICAN report

Pakistan says that its strategic programme is modest, aimed at maintaining a credible minimum deterrence to ensure national security; and at the same time it is opposed to arms race in South Asia or in any other part of the world.

“A report of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about Pakistan’s nuclear programme, was highly exaggerated and part of an insidious propaganda campaign”, spokesman of the Foreign Office said in response to ICAN’s allegations that the country has between 90-110 warheads and in 2011 it spent $2.2 billion on its strategic assets.

The Foreign Office statement, however, did not point out precisely which part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons report it was trashing. The report which also gave details about other nuclear states, went on to add that Pakistan’s modernisation of its nuclear forces is carried out primarily or exclusively by government agencies.

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