A Harvard University study claims that terrorist groups like – Al-Qaida, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) pursuing nuclear weapons. The report further mentions that nuclear programme in not as safe as the government of Pakistan says.

“The greatest risks are in Pakistan, whose small and heavily guarded stockpile confronts immense threats from both insiders theft and outsider attack,” says the report.

According to the report titled ‘Securing the Bomb 2010’ - “Nuclear terrorism remains an urgent danger to world security, and securing nuclear weapons and materials within four years would dramatically reduce the risk.”

The report underlines, “Pakistan’s modest nuclear stockpile arouses global concern because Pakistan is also the world headquarters of Al Qaeda; its stockpile faces a greater threat from Islamic extremists seeking nuclear weapons than any other nuclear stockpile on earth.” India has several times raised the issue of nuclear programmes falling in the hand of terrorists.

The report authored by Matthew Bunn of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University says “there are some indications that Lashkar-e-Taiba” may be seeking WMDs.

The report also called for continuous engagement from the world leaders to safeguard nuclear materials.

Read the full report here.