| Date: | Saturday February 07, @07:04AM |
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| Author: | admin |
| Topic: | WMD |
| from the ireland.com dept. | |
Updated: UN nuclear watchdog to persist in inquiry despite Pakistani refusals
Pakistan's President has vowed never to allow the UN nuclear inspections agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, into the country despite admitting that the man behind its nuclear weapons programme sold nuclear know-how and equipment to three of President Bush's so-called axis of evil states - Libya, Iran and North Korea. Rahul Bedi, in New Delhi, and Conor O'Clery, in New York report
President Pervez Musharaff yesterday pardoned the scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man credited with giving Pakistan a nuclear capability to mirror that of India's.
And in a robust note of defiance, the military dictator rejected any suggestion of independent monitoring of Pakistan's nuclear programme. "This is a sovereign country. No document will be given. No independent investigation will take place here."
Foreign Minister Mr Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri last night said while Pakistan would help the UN investigate the leaking of nuclear secrets, it would not allow the body investigate its own nuclear programme.
more...VIENNA : The UN atomic watchdog insisted that its investigation into Pakistani-led black market nuclear trading was on track despite Islamabad's refusal to reveal documents or allow inspections of its facilities.
"We are intensely interested in this black market because it impacts on our ability to complete our work in Iran and Libya," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokesman Mark Gwozdecky told AFP.
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