Pakistan's government - besieged by Islamists and providing a safe haven to al Qaeda - has placed ads in national newspapers asking people for information on missing radioactive material.  They say not to worry:

A spokesman for the nuclear authority said that there was a "very remote chance" that nuclear materials imported 40-50 years ago were unaccounted for.

Reassured? Me neither.

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