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Pakistan protects A.Q. Khan, refuses extradition2005-08-28 Islamabad, Aug 28 (PTI) Asking the US to treat it as an ally and not as a "target", Pakistan has said it cannot go beyond what it has already done to help the probe into A Q Khan's nuclear proliferation network and ruled out extradition of the disgraced scientist."The United States should realise that Pakistan has extended maximum possible cooperation to the international effort to dismantle the Khan network of nuclear proliferators and cannot go beyond what it has already done," Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Jehangir Karamat said. "They should know that we cannot extradite Dr A Q Khan. They should not even talk about it," he was quoted as saying at a Washington Policy Analysis Group meeting by the media here today. The ambassador said that Pakistan has been sharing the information it received from interrogating Khan with the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Karamat described the US-Pak relations as "very good" but at the same said the US would have to decide "whether it considered Pakistan an ally or not." "If we are an ally country we should be treated as an ally and not a target," he said. On the US-India nuclear cooperation, he said Pakistan has not yet decided how tackle it. "One option would be to oppose the deal and ask the US not to implement it. The other approach would be to ask them not to make it India-specific so that any country that fulfils the criterion for receiving such cooperation should receive it," Karamat said. PTI Sponsored Links
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