Pakistan Is Building A Secret Nuke Facility

Satellite images reveal a heavily fortified possible uranium enrichment site close to AQ Khan research laboratory in Rawalpindi

- Ankit Kumar

In the middle of September, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had told an international media outlet that when a nucleararmed country fights to the end, “it has consequences.”

A few days before that, he wrote in the New York Times: “If the world does nothing to stop the Indian assault on Kashmir and its people, there will be consequences for the whole world as two nuclear-armed states get ever closer to a direct military confrontation.”

In what could be a disturbing revelation for the international community, an India Today TV OpenSource Investigation (OSINT) has discovered that the heart of Pakistan’s nuclear project at Kahuta in Rawalpindi district, set up by the father of its atomic bomb Abdul Qadeer Khan in 1976, may have covertly expanded its uranium-enrichment programme over the past five years.

Remember, Islamabad is globally notorious as a major proliferant of nuclear materials and expertise. Back in 2004, Pakistan emerged at the centre of an unprecedented nuclear scandal when Khan was exposed as the world’s most sophisticated smuggler of nuclear technology to rogue regimes.

The OSINT findings lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the fortified site, officially identified as a global threat. The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has called this lab “an illicit source of nuclear technology” and “a serious challenge to nuclear-non proliferation.”

The world community must intervene now