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Pakistanrejects report about N-transfer to Nigeria

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, March 5, IRNA - Pakistan has rejected a news item issued b 
an international news agency, attributing to General Muhammad Aziz 
Khan, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, regarding unspecific 
military assistance including nuclear power to Nigeria, local media 
said Friday. 
The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, neither made any 
offer of Pakistan`s assistance to Nigeria to acquire nuclear power, 
nor he issued any such statement, the spokesman of Pakistan Military 
said in a release issued in Rawalpindi Thursday. 
According to the report of a foreign news agency, Pakistan`s top 
military official on Wednesday offered military assistance to 
Nigeria`s armed forces, Nigeria`s defense ministry said. 
Pakistan`s General Muhammad Aziz Khan said in Nigeria that his 
country is determining how it "can assist Nigeria`s armed forces to 
strengthen its military capability and to acquire nuclear power," 
the foreign news agency quoted Nigerian defense ministry`s statement. 
The report however did not elaborate and it wasn`t clear what was 
meant by nuclear power. 
Last month, one of Pakistan`s top nuclear scientists, Dr. A. Q. 
Khan admitted that he transferred nuclear technology abroad. 
The announcement came less than two months after Nigeria announced
that North Korea had agreed to share missile technology with Nigeria, 
an offer that was subsequently denied by North Korea. 
Nigeria said any North Korean missile help would be used for 
"peacekeeping" and to protect its territory. It said it was not 
seeking nuclear technology or weapons of mass destruction. 
The spokesman of Inter Services Public Relations said Pakistan`s 
nuclear capability was solely for the purpose of deterrence of 
aggression against Pakistan. "It fortified national security and it 
would never be in our national interest to share this technology in 
whatever form with any other country." 
He also requested the international and domestic media to refrain 
from filing such "ludicrous and fabricated" stories. 
TK/TSH/211 
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