May 6, 2011 6:32 PM

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Kayani doesn’t back Zardari's “no-first-use” N-policy: WikiLeaks

Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks says, Pakistan's powerful army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani does not support President Asif Ali Zardari's “no-first-use” nuclear policy. According to US diplomatic cables released by the website , General Kayani has remained silent on the subject, he does not support Zardari's statement last year to the Indian press that Pakistan will adopt a 'no first use' policy on nuclear weapons.Cables sent by the then US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson prior to Kayani's Washington visit in February 2009 says, despite increasing financial constraints, the Pakistan military is proceeding with an expansion of both its growing strategic weapons and missile programs.The cables that were just months after the Mumbai terror attacks, also talk aboutPakistan military and ISI providing support to terror groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba as a foreign policy tool.About ISI and Pakistan military, the cables said they continue to provide overt or tacit support for proxy forces including the Haqqani group and Lashkar-e-Taiba as a foreign policy tool. The cables said the single biggest message Kayani should hear in Washington is that this support must end.

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