Pak president hands over nuclear powers, Pakistan Politics – Maktoob Business
ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari gave up control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal Saturday in a bid to fend off mounting pressures threatening to weaken his rule further and complicate the war on the Taliban.
Zardari took the decision as an amnesty protecting him and key aides from corruption cases expired and risked flinging the country, struggling to contain a Taliban insurgency in the northwest, into fresh political crisis.
The presidency announced that control of the National Command Authority, which analysts and lawyers confirmed was responsible for nuclear weapons, had shifted to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
“The president has handed over his power regarding the national command and control authority to me and has issued an ordinance,” Gilani told reporters.
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