NEW DELHI: A replica of a monument built to commemorate Pakistan's tit-for-tat nuclear testing in May 1998, had been "mysteriously burnt to ashes" in Karachi, a Pakistani daily repor ted on Tuesday.
The Nation said that the fibre glass replica of the Chagi mountain was one of several constructed by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to be kept in select cities, to mark Pakistan's testing of nuclear devices on May 28, 1998, 16 days after India tested it's own.
The daily said that many questions were being raised on the burning of the monument at Bagh-e-Quaid (old Polo Ground), at a time when Pakistan's nuclear establishment in mired in controversy.
The police, the Nation report said, had ruled out sabotage, claiming a short circuit had caused the fire, but quoted a gardener at Bagh-i-Quaid as saying there had been was no electricity in the monument for the last two months.