The prospect of terror organizations getting their hands on a nuclear device has long concerned both security agencies and thriller writers. Now, it seems Indian Mujahideen India chief Ahmad Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal too was thinking along similar lines. Bhatkal recently told interrogators that he was planning to explode a nuclear bomb in Surat, according to sources.
During an interrogation with dreaded Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Yasin Bhatkal Indian security agencies became aware of a sinister plot to nuke the Gujarat city of Surat.
The Indian chief of IM revealed that he asked his Pakistan-based boss Riyaz Bhatkal to arrange a small nuclear bomb.
Yasin Bhatkal asked him (Riyaz) to arrange 'one nuclear bomb for Surat'.
Riyaz affirmed that the arrangement is possible and told Yasin that anything can be arranged in Pakistan, the news report said.
However, Riyaz was apprehensive that a nuclear explosion will have a large scale impact and will include Muslim casualties as well.
Yasin reasoned that he would post posters in mosques asking Muslims to vacate the city along with their families.
Questions have been raised over the security of nuclear explosives in Pakistan. Pakistan's nuclear weapons have been a serious cause of concern for the international community as they fear that they might fall into the wrong hands.
Pakistan has repeatedly reaffirmed that its nuclear weapons are safe and its nuclear safety program is the safest in the entire world.
In May 2009, during the anniversary of Pakistan's first nuclear weapons test, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif claimed that Pakistan’s nuclear security is the strongest in the world.
According to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's nuclear safety program and nuclear security program is the strongest program in the world and there is no such capability in any other country for radical elements to steal or possess nuclear weapons.
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