Sushma swipes at Pakistan |
India`s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj managed a well-aimed swipe at Pakistan while "deploring" North Korea`s recent missile tests. At a trilateral meeting with the US and Japan, she said that North Korea`s "proliferation linkages must be explored". It has long been suspected - and some say proven - that Pakistan is the mother lode of North Korea`s nuclear programme. Successive US administrations have known of the Pakistan-North Korea nuclear relationship via Central Intelligence Agency inputs. In fact, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the "father" of Pakistan`s atomic bomb, confessed in 2004 to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Pakistani nuclear physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy, also said that there was "complicity at a very high level", indicating that AQ Khan didn`t act alone. Hoodbhoy said it was a high-security installation in Pakistan and guarded with very fearsome amount of policing and military intelligence surrounding it. Moreover, the centrifuge weighs half a ton each and it is not possible that these could have been smuggled out in a match box, so certainly there was complicity at a very high level.
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