Ready to ensure security of strategic assets: Pak

October 18, 2012 22:24

A batch of 450 personnel from a new force raised to protect Pakistan's nuclear arsenal passed out of a training facility today, with authorities saying that a comprehensive plan has been put in place to guard the country's strategic assets.

The soldiers of the security force of the Strategic Plans Division, which controls the nuclear arsenal, passed out from the Frontier Force Regimental Centre at Abbotabad. Lt Gen Tariq Nadeem Gilani, head of the Army Strategic Force Command, was the chief guest at the ceremony.

A statement issued by the military said another batch of 450 personnel had passed out of the Baloch Regimental Centre yesterday.

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