Since 2007, the US has mounted a secret effort to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani reactor, according to a leaked cable released by WikiLeaks.
According to The New York Times, "since 2007, the United States has mounted a highly secret effort, so far unsuccessful, to remove from a Pakistani research reactor highly enriched uranium that American officials fear could be diverted for use in an illicit nuclear device." Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn reports that the cables reveal “grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program."
Security analyst Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood told the Monitor that the WikiLeaks revelations will prove a boon to hard-liners in Pakistan.
“It really reinforces [what until now] has been a conspiracy theory – that America has always been after nuclear assets and gives a big handle to the right and those who have been saying America is not a our friend and saying they are following a dual policy: with India they are friends but with Pakistan they are trying to simultaneously undermine us," he said.
