Washington, September 17: Al-Qaeda seeking nuclear secrets from Pakistan said the White House’s special man representing Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke at a reception hosted by the Congressional Caucus on Afghanistan at the Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The latest proclamation of the United States unfolded the militancy’s progress in Pakistan that has come to a point of browbeating the country’s nuclear programmes.
Al-Qaeda is trying to seek nuclear secrets from Pakistan and it remains as dangerous as ever, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said today.
Spelling out the danger posed to Pakistan’s nuclear programmes by the militancy presence in the country, Holbrooke told in a dangerous revelation, “Al-Qaeda is still there in the region, ever dangerous and publicly asking people to attack the US and publicly asking nuclear engineers to give them nuclear secrets from Pakistan.”
Presenting the real purpose of United Nations’ presence in Afghanistan, Holbrooke the point man of the Obama Administration for Afghanistan and Pakistan said, “We are not in Afghanistan for the election. We are in Afghanistan for the whole host of reasons, starting with our own national interests and going on to the fact that what happens in Afghanistan, would affect the region and what happens in the region affect the world”.
Hoping for some change, Richard underscored the fact that the White House has increased the aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan taking into consideration the prevailing extreme situations relating to terrorism in both the countries along with the increase in no. of security forces.
—Agencies