Pakistan Says New Nuclear Reactor 'Safe In Our Hands'
Siddique Islam - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AHN) - Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has said a powerful new nuclear reactor under construction was "safe in our hands" and would not spark an arms race with rival India. "It's nothing new, the world knows about it, the world knows that it's safe in our hands," Kasuri told AFP in an interview late Friday at a meeting of Asia's top security forum in Kuala Lumpur. The United States has urged Islamabad, its close ally in the "war on terror", not to use the reactor at the Khushab nuclear complex to bolster its atomic weapons capability. "It's five years old, it's nearing completion now, I don't know the timing," added Kasuri, the first senior Pakistani official to talk about the plant. Kasuri dismissed suggestions that new atomic plant could spark a fresh arms race with India, saying: "It's nothing new, it's five years old, if it had caused an arms race that was five years ago, not today." A sked why the giant reactor was needed if Pakistan and India were trying to make peace, he said: "The (nuclear) program started with India so one might ask them first."
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