Islamabad, Aug 06: Pakistan has rejected as "completely false, irresponsible and motivated" a US media report alleging the country's assistance to Iran's nuclear enrichment programme. "Such reports appear part of a malicious campaign against Pakistan's consistent and established record of safeguarding its sensitive nuclear technology and ensuring that this technology was not transferred by any organisation or individual, to any other country," a foreign office spokesman claimed yesterday.
He was responding to a newspaper report published on Monday which contained allegations that the so-called father of Pakistan's nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan had played a key role in developing Tehran's programme. "Pakistan's commitments, affirmed at the highest level, that it would not export any sensitive technologies to third countries remains unquestionable Pakistan has a strong export control regime in place. Pakistan's record in this regard is impeccable," he claimed.
He denied the reports' claims that Khan had travelled to Iran to help develop gas centrifuges used to enrich uranium to transform it to weapons-grade material.
"Pakistan's prominent scientist had never set foot in Iran or ever met with any Iranian nuclear experts," the spokesman said. The spokesman said any similarity in the shape of the centrifuges is due to the fact that they are all based on the zippe design. Bureau Report