‘US says no to Pakistan on India-like nuclear deal’
The United States has refused Pakistan’s demand that it should be offered the same kind of nuclear cooperation deal that has been signed with India, according to two nuclear experts.
Zia Mian of Princeton University and MV Ramana, a Banglore-based scientist, writing in the current issue of Arms Control Today, a publication of the Arms Control Association, contend that “despite the many claims that the social, economic and political well-being of the people of India will be enhanced by this deal (the July 2005 agreement signed by Bush and Singh in Washington), there has been little attention paid to the issue of whether India needs nuclear weapons at all, the costly failures of the Indian nuclear energy enterprise, and the possible harm for the people of India from a continued expansion of the nuclear complex.”
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