Islamabad: Pakistan's strategic assets are as safe as those of any other nuclear weapon's state and are fully safeguarded and secure under a well-established command and control system, the foreign office said on Sunday.
A report on the Times Online website on Sunday doubted the safety of Pakistan's strategic assets and claimed they could fall into the hands of the militants, but a foreign office spokesman dismissed the story as the "outlandish musings by an academic".
Online news agency quoted the spokesman as telling a private TV channel that the report was part of a "conspiracy" against Pakistan.
"Pakistan's nukes are safe and neither the militants nor any other group was capable enough to take over our atomic assets," the spokesman added.
He also rejected the suggestion that there was any danger of Pakistan's strategic assets falling into the wrong hands.
The Times Online report said: "The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country's security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one.
"The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them.
"The move follows growing anti-Americanism in Pakistan's military, a series of attacks on sensitive installations over the past two years, several of which housed nuclear facilities, and rising tension that has seen a series of official complaints by US authorities to Islamabad in the past fortnight," the report said.
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