September 26, 2011 9:27 AM

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Pak shared nuclear secrets with Iran, Libya: ISI report

Pakistan shared its secret atomic technology and equipment with countries like Iran and Libya. This was disclosed in an ISI report prepared on the basis of Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist AQ Khan's questioning. The undated ISI report, which was circulated among western intelligence agencies, says that it is most unfortunate that transfer of nuclear technology took place due to the peculiar nature of the circumstances and loose arrangements in those early days. The ISI report, obtained and released by the Fox News on Sunday, however, has no reference to North Korea, which the western countries say was also a recipient of the clandestine nuclear technology from Pakistan. In the report, the ISI also conceded that Pakistan used every legal and illegal means to obtain nuclear technology and establish the plant to make atomic weapons in the country. The report said, Pakistan, being an under-developed country with no industrial infrastructure, had to buy each and every bit of material and piece of equipment surreptitiously from abroad in the open market and had to establish a network of cover companies within the country and outside to by-pass embargoes and import all the necessary items. The ISI report said, such companies were operating in Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Singapore, UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland etc.

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