Pak also Test Plutonium Based N. Korea Wepon

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The European Union (EU) is to ask President Pervez Musharraf to accept responsibility for nuclear proliferation because Pakistan's nuclear programme was under 'totally unaccountable control of the army'.

Pakistan will also be asked for details of its May 30, 1998, nuclear tests that "showed traces of plutonium and is thought by some to have been a joint test for a North Korean nuclear weapon".

The information would be sought in one of two resolutions the EU is to forward to Pakistan, The News daily reported on Saturday in a dispatch from Brussels.

The first resolution is on a EU-Pakistan trade pact and the other on the democracy and rights situation in the country. The nuclear issue would figure in the second resolution, the newspaper said.

"An urgent request to Pakistan regarding the country's nuclear tests has been added as paragraph 8-a in the resolution on democracy and human rights," The News daily said.

The paragraph reads: "(The European parliament) draws attention to serious concerns of the international community about Pakistan's role in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, with the allegations and evidence against Pakistan hardening day by day; "while acknowledging that President Musharraf has been right to insist upon a detailed investigation and that he is right when he claims that the Khan 'incident' happened because of the secretive nature of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, highlights the fact that President Musharraf (and the rest of the world) should also recognise that nuclear proliferation happened because the nuclear programme was under the totally unaccountable control of the army; "urgently requests further information from Pakistan regarding the nuclear test on May 30, 1998, in Balochistan which showed traces of plutonium and which is thought by some to have been a joint test for a North Korean nuclear weapon."

The EU presidency and the commission would take up the issue with the Pakistani Government after the official texts of both the resolutions, together with the amendments, are conveyed to Islamabad by the president of the European parliament.

"We have no choice, but to follow the instruction of the parliament on all points, which are stipulated in the unanimously approved resolutions and amendments," the newspaper quoted a EU official as saying.

The "Khan incident" referred to relates to an admission by disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that he sold secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan after large sections of the intelligentsia had rallied behind the scientist

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_708055,00050002.htm

P.S: now don't say that this news is biased becaused it is indian source, before saying this, one should always remember that if he raised authancity of the news , that i have to find another source which i will easily find that he has to accept this and he will not argue. I know mnay which raise this Authenticity issue , but if u raise then u should also accept without arguring when i put another source.
 
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