http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HA25Df01.htmlPakistan on the spot over Iran nuclear secrets
Reverberations continue from the attack by a US Predator drone on the village of Damadola in Pakistan's Bajur tribal area last week. The raid was designed to root out al-Qaeda operatives believed to be in the area, but larger forces are at play.
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President Shaukat Aziz, on a visit to the United States, has categorically denied on US television that Pakistan was told in advance of the raid, and also rejected US claims that a few senior al-Qaeda figures died in the attack. However, Asia Times Online has reported that Islamabad definitely knew of the attack (see Pakistan's misplaced ire over US misfire, January 18).
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According to the former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), retired Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, Washington wants Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program, to provide the smoking gun it needs to prove that Iran has a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. Khan, under virtual house arrest in Pakistan, has confessed to nuclear-proliferation activities, including dealings with Iran. Pakistan refuses any access to him.
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To me, Shaukat Aziz'
US visit, given the current situation, is of significance and we will have to see what secret message he brings back with him," Gul said.