Washington—The United States is installing radiation detectors at Pakistani ports to check proliferation of nuclear material and weapons of mass destruction to and from the country, a top US official on nuclear security has said.
“We do work with Pakistan with the Department of Homeland Security, on Secure Freight Initiative, in putting radiation detectors in their ports. One port is done. Karachi is the second port. We’re negotiating that type of work”, said Thomas D’Agostino, the Under-Secretary for Nuclear Security.
Also Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, D’Agostino refrained from giving much of the details at a Congressional hearing about what the US is doing in Pakistan in this regard, saying that these are of sensitive nature .
Responding to a question from Congressman Niki Tsongas, D’Agostino agreed with a recent report by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation, which concluded that Pakistan as a focal point of WMD and terrorism.
We absolutely agree,” he said. http/pakistanobserver.net/200907/18/news/topstories09.asp
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