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Militants fighting for the Islamic State were not merely exaggerating when they boasted of potentially acquiring nuclear weapons from Pakistan, India's defense minister has warned, the Daily Mail reports.

Speaking at a security conference in Singapore, Rao Inderjit Singh said that with billions in the bank and contact with powerful Pakistani arms dealers, it is feasible that ISIS could buy a nuclear bomb.

His comments lend weight to ISIS' own claims last month that it is 'infinitely' closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, which it would then attempt to smuggle into North America and detonate.

Those boasts appeared in an article published in the terror group's propaganda magazine Dabiq, and was said to have been written by the British journalist turned ISIS prisoner, John Cantlie.
Speaking at the security conference, Mr Singh said: 'With the rise of ISIS in West Asia, one is afraid to an extent that perhaps they might get access to a nuclear arsenal from states like Pakistan.'

His comments came just a week after the militants themselves claimed that acquiring nuclear weapons is 'more possible today than it was just one year ago'.