ISLAMABAD, November 29 (SPA) - Pakistan"s President Asif Ali Zardari has transferred authority over the nation"s National Command Authority (NCA) to the prime ministership. Key cabinet ministers and the army, navy and air force heads are also members of the NCA, which controls the country"s nuclear programme, Reuters reported. "He (President Zardari) who himself was chairman of the NCA has given that authority to the prime minister. What more powers can there be than this, which a prime minister should have?" Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister told reporters late on Saturday. Pakistan set up the NCA in 2000, two years after it conducted nuclear tests. Musharraf introduced the ordinance in 2007. Zardari took over as president last year after the assassination of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in late 2007. --SPA 13:19 LOCAL TIME 10:19 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/723537