Afghanistan to look into Pak nuke ‘dumping’

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has appointed a team of experts to investigate allegations that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan, his office said on Wednesday.

In April, an Afghan minister told the BBC that his government had evidence Pakistan had buried its nuclear waste in the southern Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar during the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.

But the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Farouk Wardak, later denied he had said this. Pakistan has also rejected the claim.

Karzai, however, has now set up, through presidential decree, a team of experts to investigate “rumours” of nuclear dumping, a statement from his office said.