Very large number of cancer cases have emerged in the last decade in my district which is near Chashma nuclear power plant (Punjab). All the nuclear installations/facilies of Pakistan are in Punjab but are away from Indian border , and are close to KPK border. I heard Imran Khan saying in an interview that more than half of the cancer patients in Shaukat Khanam hospital Lahore, are from KPK, so they felt the need of building one hospital in Peshawar. It seems to me some thing fishy is going on, Punjab is probably dumping nuclear waste in KPK.
In 2008 Afghanistan governmentclaimed that it has evidence that nuclear waste from Pakistan was dumped in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taleban. Parliamentary affairs minster Faruq Wardag told the BBC the waste was buried in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan 'dumped nuclear waste'
Here is excerpt from interview of Physicist Dr. A. H. Nayyar (the site is now down in which interview was published) ;
"Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission holds most of its activities secret, and does not let citizens know where it dumps nuclear waste. Presently the Commission is directly under the Ministry of Defence, and hence its work has become highly confidential. Even when it was under the Ministry of Science and Technology, it would not allow any probing into its activities. We do not know which other places are being used as nuclear waste dumping sites.
......It is criminal that the Atomic Energy Commission does not share any information on waste dumping procedures it adopts. "
In 2008 Afghanistan governmentclaimed that it has evidence that nuclear waste from Pakistan was dumped in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taleban. Parliamentary affairs minster Faruq Wardag told the BBC the waste was buried in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan 'dumped nuclear waste'
Here is excerpt from interview of Physicist Dr. A. H. Nayyar (the site is now down in which interview was published) ;
"Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission holds most of its activities secret, and does not let citizens know where it dumps nuclear waste. Presently the Commission is directly under the Ministry of Defence, and hence its work has become highly confidential. Even when it was under the Ministry of Science and Technology, it would not allow any probing into its activities. We do not know which other places are being used as nuclear waste dumping sites.
......It is criminal that the Atomic Energy Commission does not share any information on waste dumping procedures it adopts. "

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