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Sunday, July 18, 1999
`India, Pak trying to improve nuke weapons plan'
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Washington, July 17: India and Pakistan are continuing their attempts to improve their nuclear arms programmes, according to a US intelligence report.The two neighbours, who conducted multiple nuclear tests in May last year, are engaged in upgrading their nuclear weapons programmes, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said in a half-yearly proliferation report mandated by the Congress.India and Pakistan were able to obtain "only a limited amount" of nuclear weapons-related assistance during the second half of 1998, just after the two countries conducted the tests.Meanwhile, the Washington Post said in a despatch that delegations from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had toured pakistan's nuclear and missile development sites. But Punjab Governor Shahid Hamid, told the paper Pakistan's nuclear technology "is not for sale". Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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