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Vol. 5 Num 479 Fri. September 30, 2005  
   
World


Pakistan backs nuke free Koreas


Pakistan's prime minister said yesterday his country supports a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula and has shared what little information it had about North Korea's nuclear programme with South Korea.

"As regards any limited information we had in the past it has been shared with the Korean government," Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told reporters on the first full day his visit to South Korea. "It's a closed chapter. Pakistan is against proliferation in any form."

Pakistan's relationship with North Korea was a focus of international attention after revelations that A.Q. Khan, the South Asian nation's top nuclear scientist, provided nuclear weapons technology to the communist country as well as to Iran and Libya.