New Delhi: India has voiced concern over the likelihood of Pakistan's nuclear assets falling into the hands of jehadi elements.

India has sought a ''different approach'' based on ''new global consensus'' to deal with such a situation.

''The nature of the dangers which nuclear weapons pose has dramatically intensified with the growing risk that such weapons may be acquired by terrorists or jehadi groups who could threaten to use, or worse, even utilise such weapons to carry out attacks against targets which may be located anywhere in the world,'' prime minister's special envoy Shyam Saran said on Monday.

''The mounting concern over the likelihood that in a situation of chaos, Pakistan's nuclear assets may fall into the hands of jehadi elements, fired by the ideology of extremism and mindless violence, underscores how real this danger has become,'' he said.

Saran was delivering a lecture on 'India and the Nuclear Domain', organised by Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses.

Noting that the danger posed by proliferation of nuclear weapons to non-state actors is of a ''different and more threatening dimension'' than that from the proliferation to additional states, he said ''India has to be deeply concerned about the danger it faces'' from this ''new and growing threat''.

Source : PTI