Media reports say in view of overwhelming dependence of US on Islamabad for its Afghan operations, the Obama Administration is unlikely to openly criticise deal between Beijing and Islamabad to deliver two nuclear power plants to Pakistan. <br/><br/>However, the US might object to the deal inside the Nuclear Supplier Group, NSG. In its report released today, a US think tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the deal between the two countries is in violation of the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, NSG, that require NPT signatory states to supply such equipment only with comprehensive IAEA safeguards. <br/><br/>The report says that this transaction is about to happen at a time when China's increasingly ambitious nuclear energy programme is becoming more autonomous. It further says the United States may also tolerate China's new nuclear deal with Pakistan because Obama wants China's support for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran this spring.<br/>