WASHINGTON: Pakistan takes its responsibilities for securing its nuclear stockpile quite seriously. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made these remarks while commenting on a report by a US think-tank, also published in The Washington Post, which claimed that in 10 years Pakistan would have the third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world after the US and Russia.
Pakistan has rejected the report as “utterly baseless”. Mr Earnest said he had seen the think-tank report but did not have any official government assessment to share with the media. He said that President Barack Obama had a long-term goal of “a world without nuclear weapons”. He convenes an international summit every couple of years to promote this goal.
“And that continues to be a top foreign policy priority of his,” he said and noted that the next nuclear summit would be held in Washington next year. “The second thing is — and this applies not just to Pakistan but to countries around the world that have a nuclear stockpile — that they have a responsibility for securing that nuclear stockpile,” said Mr Earnest.
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