<br/>The US has indicated that it would object to any nuclear deal between Pakistan and China when presented before the Nuclear Suppliers' Group for approval next week. According to a report in The Washington Post, the occasion will be a meeting of the 46-member Nuclear Suppliers Group in New Zealand.<br/><br/>The two nuclear proliferators of long standing, China and Pakistan, are on the verge of announcing a nuclear deal, involving the export of at least two reactors by China to Pakistan.<br/><br/>The China National Nuclear Corporation is financing for two new reactors at Chashma in Pakistan's Punjab province. The Post report says that China has argued before the United States that the sale is grandfathered from the time before it joined the NSG in 2004, as it was completing work on two earlier reactors for Pakistan at the time.<br/><br/>However, US State department spokesman, Gordon DuGuid, said any such proposal would require a consensus approval by the NSG.<br/><br/>Expert sources said in New Delhi, the deal appears to be in violation of international guidelines forbidding nuclear exports to countries that have not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or do not have international safeguards on reactors.<br/><br/>India, though not a signatory to the NPT, has agreed to bring a specified list of its reactors under international safeguard norms.<br/><br/>AIR correspondent reports, China was one of the strongest critics of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and held back its approval till the very last minute. Beijing had then argued that the Indo-US deal violated non-proliferation norms.<br/><br/>Apparently, its supply of reactors to an internationally acknowledged nuclear proliferators, such as Pakistan, does violate NPT norms and conventions.<br/>