Pakistan rejects Indian report, says containers in query had been empty

Indian media had falsely claimed that port authorities on the Mundra Port had seized the so-called “radioactive materials” on containers loaded on a Shanghai-bound industrial vessel.

The Ministry of International Affairs, in a press release, clarified that the containers in query had been empty. They’d earlier been used for the transportation of gas from China to Karachi for the Ok-2 and Ok-3 nuclear energy vegetation and had been now being returned to China.

The assertion mentioned that each the ability vegetation and gas utilized in these vegetation are beneath the IAEA safeguards.

“The containers had been ‘EMPTY’ and the cargo was appropriately declared as non-hazardous within the delivery paperwork,” it underscored.

The assertion famous that the reporting by the Indian media on the matter is “factually incorrect, baseless, laughable and a traditional ploy of the Indian media to malign Pakistan and mislead the worldwide group”.

“The pretend reporting by Indian media is indicative of a malafide intent to twist procedural customs points to convey into disrepute IAEA safeguarded nuclear energy programme,” it added.