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| Pakistan cannot expect India-like Nuclear deal: US |
| 2008-07-31 |
| Nicholas Burns, one of the architects of the Indo-US nuclear deal, feels that Pakistan cannot expect a similar pact, a day after its Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani openly demanded from the US such a deal. Burns also pressed for the speedy approval of the nuke deal ahead of the IAEA taking up the India-specific safeguards pact on Saturday for approval saying it was "good" for both the countries besides helping strengthen the non-proliferation regime. "India's trust, its credibility, the fact that it has promised to create a state-of-the art facility, monitored by the IAEA, to begin a new export control regime in place, because it has not proliferated the nuclear technology, we can't say that about Pakistan." said Burns when asked whether the US will offer a nuclear deal with Pakistan on the lines of the Indo-US nuke deal during a panel debate on nuclear agreement at the Brookings Institution. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #5 We have a "different" nuclear deal for Pak animals. Don't feel at all slighted, you'll be very, very impressed by this little sweetie we've got planned for you. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-07-31 18:27 |
| #4 Nicely put, OS. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-07-31 14:45 |
| #3 if they want to give civilian nuclear status to India, we would also expect the same for Pakistan Once you become civilized enought to warrant such treatment you will get it. Once you become equal to India in temrs of controlling Islamist terrorists, then you'll get equal treatment. Once you conrol your intelligence agencies you will get equal treatment. Once your nation is no threat to the US as Idnia is no threat, then you will get equal treatment. Until then, no. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-31 14:37 |
| #2 Ironically Pakistan doesn't need a deal like the US-India one. India has 22 nuclear power reactors and is building several more. It has a fast breeder reactor and is building another, larger one. It is building an advanced heavy water reactor that will burn thorium. It has several research reactors, including Apsara, the oldest reactor in Asia (which makes medical isotopes), and Kamini, the only U-233 reactor in the world. India operates its own superconducting cyclotron, its own Tokamaks. It is researching waste immobilization and vitrification. It is building components for CERN's large hadron collider. Canada for example is looking to collaborate with India on thorium research and advanced reactors. India has joined ITER (the international thermonuclear experimental reactor) and will build components for it. So there are good reasons to increase international nuclear trade with India. It will not be one way. India's enrichment and reprocessing facilities may eventually be part of GNEP. By contrast, Pakistan doesn't have much of a civil nuke power sector and simply isn't in India's league where it comes to nuclear research and development. It has no shortage of Uranium ore for its few reactors. A nuclear deal is far less relevant in their situation. Pakistan's interests in nuke tech is primarily for weapons. It is a lot like the space sector. Pakistan has no launch vehicle capable of even low earth orbit while India builds heavy boosters and its own satellites and will launch a lunar probe in September. Pakistan's clamor for a N-deal is like the whine of a spoilt child. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-31 13:57 |
| #1 "India's trust, its credibility, the fact that it has promised to create a state-of-the art facility, monitored by the IAEA, to begin a new export control regime in place, because it has not proliferated the nuclear technology, we can't say that about Pakistan." Simple. To the point Which is why the Paki's will go nuts... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-31 13:25 |