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- From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
- Subject: Washington Asks Islamabad To Return Nine Warships
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.130827.18480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:08:27 GMT
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- Source : PTI
- Date : Dec 24, 1992
- Country : Pakistan
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- Headlines:
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- * US asks Pakistan to return warships
- * Iran and Pakistan making a nuclear bomb
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- * US asks Pakistan to return warships
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- Islamabad - Dec 24: Washington has asked Islamabad to return nine warships
- which it had leased to Pakistan, Pakistani Naval Chief Admiral Saeed Mohd
- Khan has disclosed. The demand is in contravention of the Pressler
- Amendment which provides that Pakistan's defense capabilities level
- should not be lowered, Admiral Khan told.
- At present the Pakistan navy has nine US warships on lease including
- "PNS ASLAT" whose lease has already expired. According to the Frontier
- Post, the US was not keen on having these ships back at the year's
- begining, but of late it has changed its mind and is pressing for
- early return of the vessels which includes a supporting ship.
- US military and ecnomic aid was suspended to Pakistan in
- Oct 1990 under the Pressler Amendment under suspicion that Pakistan's
- nuclear program was weapon oriented. Islamabad has repeatedly denied the
- charge but said that while pursuing its peaceful nuclear program it had
- acquired 'a certain capability.'
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- * Iran and Pakistan making a nuclear bomb [ Source: PTI ]
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- Washington Dec 24: Iran and Pakistan have been cooperating in making
- a nuclear bomb for the last two years, the NBC TV reported Tuesday evening
- quoting U.S intelligence reports.
- The TV quoted Iranian President Ali Hashmei Rafsanjani telling
- his people about a possible war with the west and that the soul
- guarentor of victory during such a war would be nuclear weapons.
- Pakistan foreign secretary has described the Islamic bomb a mirage.
- NBC said Iran has also been seeking nuclear technology from other
- countries including India, Argentian and China, but the US has been
- able to stop such help except for the sale of a Russian nuclear rector
- to Iran.
- The hatred for the US as the great satan in Iran has survived
- for the last 13 years and Presdient Rafsanjani has been engineering the
- military build up including efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
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