By NNN-Xinhua
Islamabad : Pakistan on Wednesday termed as baseless a statement from an Afghan cabinet minister that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan during Taliban period.
Afghanistan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Farooq Wardag was quoted as saying that Pakistan had buried nuclear waste in Kandahar and Helmand when Taliban were ruling the areas.
“The Afghan minister’s statement regarding dumping of nuclear waste by Pakistan in Afghanistan was baseless,” Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said at the weekly news briefing here on Wednesday.
He said disposal of nuclear waste was strictly regulated in accordance with the international standards.
“Our nuclear power stations are under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards which not only keeps an oversight on their operations but also on storage of nuclear waste which has to be fully accounted for,” Sadiq said.