According to a news report, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Taliban have their eyes set on our nuclear assets. This is the most irresponsible statement by a senior minister of Pakistan that I have ever read. On the basis of this statement, Barack Obama has said that America can send troops to prevent Pakistani nuclear assets falling in the hands of Taliban. The minister should have thought a thousand times before giving such a statement, especially as all the big nations including Israel are against our nuclear capability and are looking for some excuse to destroy it. -MAJ (Retd) ANWAR PASHA, Lahore, via e-mail, May 18.