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Pakistan will not extradict nuclear scientists
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said the government attaches top priority to its nuclear programme and vowed not to hand over nuclear scientists to any country. He clarified that Pakistan would not compromise on its nuclear programme and it was in safe hands. Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told reporters on Tuesday that the scientists were being questioned in Pakistanâs interest. He said that 80 percent of debriefing of Dr Qadeer Khan and other scientists was completed. âSome scientists have been released and some are under investigation. They will be freed if found innocent,â the information minister said.
| Will they be hanged if not? |
He said the government was satisfied that Pakistanâs nuclear programme would not plunge into crisis. He clarified that neither an Israeli minister was coming to Pakistan nor a conference was being held in Pakistan.
| I have no idea if that was a change of subject or if he was giving examples of "crises." |
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-21 |
