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PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION LIMITED
NATIONAL NEWS BUREAU
English News Headlines 1800 hrs dated 04-07-1998 
 
 

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THE UNITED STATES HAS DISMISSED THE CONCOCTED CLAIMS BY IFTIKHAR KHAN CHOUDHARY THAT PAKISTAN ALLEGEDLY WANTED TO LAUNCH NUCLEAR ATTACK AGAINST INDIA. IN WASHINGTON A SPOKESMAN SAID THAT AFTER MEETING BY THE SO-CALLED SCIENTIST WITH AMERICAN OFFICIALS HIS CLAIM THAT PAKISTAN ALLEGEDLY WANTED LAUNCH A NUCLEAR ATTACK AGAINST INDIA IS ABSURED. THE SPOKESMAN SAID SUCH BASELESS ALLEGATIONS COULD NOT BE AUTHENTIC.

THE DRAMA OF THE SO-CALLED PAKISTAN NUCLEAR ENGINEER DR. IFTIKHAR KHAN CHAUDHRY PLOTTED BY THE WESTERN AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA HOSTILE TO PAKISTAN FLOPPED AFTER DISCLOSURE OF HIS IDENTITY. ACCORDING TO REPORTS CNN AND SOME OTHER MEDIA HAVE WITHHELD THE INTERVIEWS WITH IFTIKHAR, IN THE FACE OF QUESTION BEING RAISED ABOUT HIS CREDIBILITY. FBI AND OTHER U.S. AGENCIES HAVE ALSO REPORTEDLY REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE BASELESS, FABRICATED AND CONCOCTED STORY AND CLAIMS BY IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY. ACCORDING TO OUR CORRESPONDENT ARSHAD SALEEM, IFTIKHAR SIKANDER KHAN A RESIDENT OF CHAKWAL HAS NO EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AT ALL. HE HAS BEEN SERVING AS AN ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT IN A LOCAL COMPANY AT KARACHI AND FORTE PAKISTAN IN ISLAMABAD FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS AFTER COMPLETING HIS BACHELOR DEGREE IN COMMERCE AT THE AGE OF 19 YEARS. IFTIKHAR, HIS FATHER, SIKANDAR KHAN HAS ALSO DENIED THAT HE EVER SERVED OR QUALIFIED FOR SERVICE IN PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION.
 
 

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WEATHER:

RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT A NUMBER OF PLACES IN SINDH AND AT ISOLATED PLACES OF BALOCHISTAN, PUNJAB AND KASHMIR.



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