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Sunday, July 10, 2011

US wants to roll back Pak nuclear programme: Zulfiqar

Ex-Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) lieutenant general (retd) Zulfiqar Ali Khan has said that the united stated wants to roll back the Pakistani nuclear programme.

He said that accusations of selling nuclear secrets to North Korea against him are baseless, adding that he send defamation notice to US newspaper for publishing a false story against him.
In an interview with a private TV channel Zulfiqar Ali Khan said that the allegations of selling nuclear secrets to North Korea are baseless, adding that US is trying to humiliate Pakistan’s secret agencies and retired generals are being targeted to roll back the country’s nuclear program.
He said that nuclear program of Pakistan is focused by US and it is trying to roll back the nuclear program of Pakistan, adding that for this purpose US presents excuses of Taliban and command and control system of the country.
He said that the recent extracts published in the Washington Post showed that US want to create a buffer zone between the people of Pakistan and security institutions to achieve their interests regarding the nuclear program.
Zulfiqar Ali Khan said that the letter published was wrote in 1998, adding that at that time he was not performing duties at General Headquarters, adding that he would serve defamation notice against the Washington Post. SANA