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India-Pakistan
Pakistan to tighten control over nuclear exports
2007-05-01
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan set up a new body to tighten controls over nuclear and missile technology exports on Monday, days before a potentially incriminating report on the atomic black market network of disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was due for release.
Barn door, horse, lock ...
“The new organization which will act as a licensing body would essentially centralize control over the export of strategic goods, materials and equipments as it includes all concerned ministries,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasneem Aslam told journalists in Islamabad.

Supervised by the ministry, the Strategic Export Control Division (SECDIV) will ensure all exports conform with the demands of international authorities, including the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Australia Group dealing with biological agents and toxins, and the Missile Technology Control Regime, she said.

Pakistan is expected to be further implicated in previous cases of nuclear proliferation in a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, scheduled for publication later this week. The document titled “Nuclear black markets: Pakistan, AQ Khan and the rise of proliferation networks: A new assessment?” is expected to provide more evidence linking the Pakistani scientist with colleagues in Iran’s nuclear programme.
And North Korea. And Saudi-controlled Arabia. And Malaysia. And Libya. And ...
Khan, still honoured in Pakistan as the father of its nuclear programme, confessed in 2004 to running a network of atomic proliferators operating overseas. He was later pardoned by President Pervez Musharraf but remains wrapped in duct tape under virtual house arrest.

The establishment of the new control mechanism indicated ”Pakistan’s strong commitment to non-proliferation and determination to fulfil its national and international export control commitments,” Aslam said.
And then his lips fell off ...
Posted by:Steve White

#5  The damage has already been done. All that remains is retribution against Pakistan for destabilizing the entire Middle East and ginning up attacks against the West. Their sins are manifold and egregious.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-01 17:02  

#4  John - The UN not having any power there is no governing thing to stop their failed state except the force of arms. The only strong states with forces in theater being India, USA and China.
The US is pretty busy. Kind of leaves China and India. In ways like NK is, Pakiwakiland is sort of China's bitch. So China would be the natural but we see how that works in NK and Burma so.. China and India - would dice help?
Posted by: 3dc   2007-05-01 10:05  

#3  Strategic Export Control Division

And why is Pakistan allowed to export anything even remotely "strategic"?

Posted by: John Frum   2007-05-01 06:39  

#2  NEWSMAX [several articles] > GEORGE TENET: AL QAEDA NUCLEAR THREAT REAL. AQ changed its mind on 2003 deadly terror attack agz NYC subway system in favor of "something better". FOX > OVER 20 TERROR ATTACKS AGZ USA PER SE FOILED SINCE 9-11; + EXPERT: HIGH RISK/PROBS OF ATTACKS AGZ WASHINGTON, DC; NYC. Organized Radic Islamist-Terror groups like AQ will likely possess nuclear weapons in 10 YEARS, UNLESS ALREADY IN THEIR POSSESSION. For the first time in history, a highly decentralized network of NUKE/WMD-ARMED violent Terror group(s) may form the basis = majority of de facto, anti-democratic, anti-US-Western governance/ruling regimes in several major Muslim nations, from Central-North Africa to Central Asia-SCO, etal.; + DE BORCHGRAVE > TRAIL OF NUKES LEAD TO IRAN; + SMITH: CHINA'S HIDDEN AGENDA. SATWAR and Improved dual-capable SILKWORMS, including those sold = may sell to ME Rogues.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-05-01 01:58  

#1  AQ Khan, the ultimate Paki shyster. Good at stealing and copying plans and documents. Just left out the nuclear physics. Thanks for the proof NKors.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970   2007-05-01 01:03  

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