Foreign Office of Pakistan rejected UK media reports about uranium package seized at London’s Heathrow Airport

Islamabad: (Staff Reporter) The Foreign Office (FO) rejected UK media reports that a uranium package seized at London’s Heathrow Airport came from Pakistan. On Wednesday, the British police revealed that a “very small quantity” of uranium was detected in a package that arrived at Heathrow Airport last month. They added it did not appear to be linked to any direct threat or any public health threat.

According to the Foreign Office spokeswoman, the reports were “not factual”. The amount of radioactive material, caught during routine scanning on December 29, was extremely small and had been assessed by experts as posing no risk, Richard Smith, head of London police s Counter Terrorism Command said.

Later, a report by The Sun claimed that the package originated in Pakistan before arriving aboard an Oman Air passenger jet from Muscat. The shipment was addressed to an Iranian-linked firm in the UK, it was understood.

Meanwhile Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told a questionnaire that the media reports the FO went through weren t factual. She said no information to this effect had been shared with them officially by the UK authorities