ISLAMABAD, Apr 15 (Al Jazeera/NDTV): Pakistani Army on Thursday rubbished former prime minister Imran Khan's allegations raising doubts over the country's capability to safeguard its nuclear assets.
During a roadshow in Peshawar on Wednesday, Khan who was ousted after the recent no-confidence motion against his government, questioned whether Pakistan's nuclear weapons were safe in the hands of what he called "robbers" and "thieves", referring to the newly elected Shehbaz Sharif regime.
Meanwhile, Major General Babar Iftikhar, the Director-General of ISPR- the media wing of the Pakistan army- dismissed Khan's allegations stating that Pakistan's nuclear assets do not belong to just one individual.
In an incendiary speech on Wednesday night, Imran Khan had said he wanted to ask the country's establishment if the people who were brought to power as part of a "conspiracy" can safeguard the country's nuclear program.
"The conspiracy under which these people were brought to power, I ask my institutions, is our nuclear program which is in their hands, can they protect it?" Khan said.
"Is the nuclear program safe in the hands of these robbers, whose money is outside?" Imran Khan further said.
Earlier, Pakistan’s powerful military has dismissed deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusation that the United States had conspired to topple him in a parliamentary vote of confidence. Khan, 69, who led the South Asian country of 220 million people for three and half years, accused Washington of backing his removal because he had visited Moscow against US advice. Washington has denied the charge.
Khan met Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, the day Russian forces invaded neighbouring Ukraine.
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