Pak can’t expect a nuke deal like that of ‘credible’ India: Burns

“India’s trust, its credibility, the fact that it has promised to create a state-of-the art facility, monitored by the IAEA, to begin a new export control regime in place, because it has not proliferated the nuclear technology, we can’t say that about Pakistan.” said Burns when asked whether the US will offer a nuclear deal with Pakistan on the lines of the Indo-US nuke deal during a panel debate on nuclear agreement at the Brookings Institution.

After meeting US President George W Bush, Gilani demanded from the US a nuclear deal similar to the one Washington has forged with New Delhi, assuring that the nuclear proliferation network of its scientist A Q Khan was broken and will not be repeated.

“There should be no preferential, there should be no discrimination. And if they want to give civilian nuclear status to India, we would also expect the same for Pakistan too,” Gilani said at a gathering under the aegis of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Middle East Institute.

On the Indo-US nuke pact, the former Under Secretary of State of Political Affairs, who was the US points man for the deal, said, “My conviction is that this deal strengthens the non proliferation regime. It makes India a stakeholder.”