Pakistan rejects Indian media reports claiming Indian port authorities had seized "possible radioactive material" on shipping containers aboard a commercial vessel loaded at Karachi Port, Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said Saturday.
Indian media had falsely claimed that port authorities at the Mundra Port had seized the so-called "radioactive material" on containers loaded on a Shanghai-bound commercial vessel.
The spokesperson, in a statement, clarified that the containers in question were empty. They had earlier been used for the transportation of fuel from China to Karachi for the K-2 and K-3 nuclear power plants and were now being returned to China.
The spokesperson said that both the power plants and fuel used in these plants are under the IAEA safeguards.
"The containers were 'EMPTY' and the cargo was correctly declared as non-hazardous in the shipping documents," he underscored.
The spokesperson noted that the reporting by the Indian media on the matter is "factually incorrect, baseless, laughable and a usual ploy of the Indian media to malign Pakistan and mislead the international community".
"The fake reporting by Indian media is indicative of a malafide intent to twist procedural customs issues to bring into disrepute IAEA safeguarded nuclear power programme," Ahmed added.
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