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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (9827)	11/4/2001 12:59:53 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

Pak fears threat to nuclear arsenal, under pressure to move them to China PTI London, November 04, 20:53 Pakistan is under pressure to move all or part of its nuclear weapons to China for safekeeping from fundamentalists. It is apprehensive of preemptive strikes on its nuclear sites by America, India or Israel to prevent the weapons falling into fundamentalist hands, a media report quoting Pakistani sources said on Sunday. The threat to weapons widely regarded as the Pakistan military's "crown jewels" has forced Islamabad "to consider removing warheads to China, Pakistan's closest strategic ally in the region," the Sunday Times reported. The prospect that loose warheads might be loaded onto helicopters or moved around a region foaming with fundamentalist turmoil is adding to fears in Washington that the war in Afghanistan might provoke a nuclear crisis. According to the report, Abdul Sattar, the Pakistani Foreign Minister, insisted last week that the arsenal was secure. But Washington officials have expressed mounting alarm that any coup attempt against General Pervez Musharraf, the military President, might put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at risk. Pakistani generals were appalled by one authoritative American report last week that an elite Pentagon undercover unit, trained to disarm nuclear weapons, was exploring plans for a mission inside Pakistan. "Every paranoid fear they have had over the past 20 years about people coming to get our missiles is suddenly coming to the force," Zia Mian, a Pakistani physicist and authority on the nuclear program said. China' nuclear relations with Pakistan have long been the focus of controversy. Chinese scientists are believed to have played a key role in developing Pakistan's nuclear programme in the early 1980s. The two countries share a mistrust of India, which has also developed nuclear weapons. thenewspapertoday.com