DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A recent report written by a U.K.-based security expert said that militants had attacked nuclear facilities three times in two years, but a Pakistani military spokesman denied that on Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said there is "absolutely no chance" the country's atomic weapons could fall into terrorist hands.
Shaun Gregory, a professor at Bradford University's Pakistan Security Research Unit, wrote that several militant attacks have already hit military bases where nuclear components are secretly stored. The article appeared in the July newsletter of the Combating Terrorism Center of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Abbas said Wednesday that none of the military bases named was used to store atomic weapons.
Separately, a bomb and gunfire attack against a paramilitary checkpoint in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta killed at least two passers-by and wounded four other people, including a police officer, authorities said.
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Senior police officer Mohammad Suleman said a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded near a Frontier Corps checkpoint in central Quetta, and then gunmen on another motorcycle opened fire.
