ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is not against nuclear disarmament but it should be universal and nondiscriminatory, says Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry.
During the 69th General Assembly, the United Nations observed the first-ever annual day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons. In a message released by his office, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged member states that ‘the time has come for the total elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles’.
While most active members of one group lobbied for a complete, across the board ban on all nuclear arms, others quietly tried to put the spotlight on Pakistan.
India led this group, which argued that Pakistan was an instable country, facing widespread terrorism and political chaos. They also drew attention to PTI’s dharna, both outside the parliament building in Islamabad and near the UN headquarters during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address on September 26.
Terrorism and this political chaos, they argued, showed that Pakistan was an inherently weak state, which cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons.
Police officer killed in Quetta
Islamabad: A policeman was shot dead in the early hours yesterday morning near Kuchlak area of Quetta.
Police was quoted by Dawn as saying that two armed motorcyclists opened fire at the vehicle of Abdul Raheem who died on the spot. Police said the victim received five bullets.
Raheem was serving as a sub-inspector at the Kuchlak Police Station. The attackers sped away on their motorcycle after launching the attack.
Raheem’s body was shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for a postmortem. Police and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel reached the site of the attack as a probe into the incident went under way.
The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained and no group has claimed the responsibility for the attack as yet.
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