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Nuke leak may cost Pakistan billions

ANI, Islamabad
The three billion dollar US economic and military package promised by President George W Bush in June 2003 to President Pervez Musharraf may be in jeopardy because of Wednesday's disclosures by Dr A Q Khan that he had helped North Korea, Iran and Libya in their nuclear programmes .
"The US laws provide automatic sanctions against a country, indulging in nuclear proliferation," the Dawn quoted an official as saying during a background briefing.
But he also said that before reaching to any conclusion, the Bush Administration was likely to consider the matter retrospectively because the pilferage had stopped after the setting up of an effective nuclear command and control mechanism.
He said that Dr Khan had categorically denied that Pakistan's
missile programme was in any way the result of an exchange of technology with Pyongyang.
Khan in his signed statement, had accepted supplying old and discarded centrifuge and enrichment machines together with sets of drawings, sketches, technical data and depleted Hexaflouride (UF6) gas to North Korea.
Dr Khan, the official said, had also admitted supplying centrifuge and enrichment equipment along with a set of drawings to Iran under pressure from the late General Imtiaz, a former advisor to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on defence, between December 1988 and August 1990.
Official said the proliferation started in 1989-91 because of what he termed the flawed security arrangement.
Between 1997 and 1999, orders were placed for the pro-
duction of components for centrifuge machines while during 1998-2000, technical assistance was provided to North Korea.
Between 1999-2001, intelligence officials had found nothing after they raided a North Korea-bound chartered aircraft.
However, the then chief of the general staff and the director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence alerted Dr A Q Khan. It was then decided by authorities not to grant further extension to Dr Khan.
After this, the official said, Dr Khan started covering up his tracks and even fired one Dr Zubair from his services.
The official said in all eleven scientists and security personnel of the KRL had been called for "debriefing" but no third-degree method was used to pressurise them.