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US State Department says

Aid stoppage to Pakistan remains in effect
WASHINGTON Apr 30 Despite signa of Improving re tattoos. the US aid cut off to Pakistan prompted by the South Asian country* devel opment of nuclear weapons remains unchanged, the Slate Department says, reports AP.
Washlm Sajjld. visiting chairman of the Pakistani Senate has discussed the issue at the State Department. The US postlion Is that sanctions ordered against Pakistan tn 1990 because of the nuclear issue remain In effect, the State Department said Wed nesday In a statement.
The two governments were reported In closer agreement on devefopmerfts 1n Pakistan's, neighbour. Afghanistan, after collapse of the Kabul govern ment and takeover of the capita! by a coalition of guerilla groups
Wasstm Sajjld met Secretary of Stale James A Raker 111 on Tuesday and continued his talks Wednesday with Arnold Kantcr. undcrscc retary of stale for political affairs. Ills schedule also included meetings with an array
Sajjld and Kanlcr agreed that the Afghan situation remains basically fluid, tlx Stale Department said, and that It would be In the Interest of both Pakistan and the United Stales for Afghanis tan s prob 1cma to be resolved In a "broad-based settlement process by and for Afghans" and to support United Nations efforts for a peaceful transition.
Sajjld told Baker that he warmly welcomed the return to Kabul from exile of Sibgetuliah Mofaddedt io head the new railing council of
guerilla groups and that I he erase fire In the capital Is ba sically holding, the depart ment said
Pakistan has channelled major assistance to the proIranian. Muslim funds me ntalisl guerilla faction of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, accused of firing rockets Into Kabul until Tuesday tn Its struggle against more moderate mainstream groups that finally took over
Reports from Islamabad said Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently halted assistance to Hekmatyar after former Soviet Muslim republics now culttvsted by Pakistan warned against an Afghan takeover by fundamentalist*
The State Department said Sajjld also discussed the situation tn Kashmir, where India
accuse* Pakistan of supporting terrorism. and Prime Minister Sharifs proposal to bring the United Stales. China and Russia Into Indo Pakistan talks on regional nuclear non-proliferation.
The Untied States 1n 1990 froze deliveries of dlrs 573 minion worth of aid to Pakistan declaring President Bush could no longer meet the requirements of US law to certify that Pakistan possessed neither a nuclear cxploshe device nor Its components.
Pakistani Foreign Secretary Shohryar Khan acknowledged here last Fcbruaiy what his government had long denied, that Pakistan had the comp# ncnls and technology for assembling an atomic bomb He pledged that it would not explode a bomb or sell nuclear tcrhnoloj^ abroad.