China is to help Pakistan build a new nuclear power plant in the north of the country, the two sides have announced.

The power plant, to be built at Chashma south of Islamabad by 2010, will be for peaceful purposes, a statement said.
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The new 300-megawatt power station will be located next to a plant the Chinese helped to build in the 1990s, also at Chashma, on the banks of the River Indus.

"It is worth mentioning that Pakistan’s nuclear power plants are under the safeguards of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], which is... responsible for monitoring and safeguarding of nuclear power plants," a statement issued by both parties said.

Pakistan has a parallel nuclear establishment, which runs its nuclear-weapon and missile technology programme.
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Since Islamabad is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, its weapons programme is not open to international inspections, says BBC Islamabad correspondent Zaffar Abbas.