Former premier Benazir Bhutto reiterated her willingness here on Wednesday to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to Dr AQ Khan because she does not believe in a “cover up.” Curiously, a ‘clarification’ issued by her party secretariat in Islamabad on Tuesday had denied that the Pakistan People’s Party chairperson had made any such offer and in fact accused the media of distorting her words. At her news conference at the Middle East Institute, she not only repeated what her party secretariat had earlier denied but elaborated on her reasons for permitting access to the nuclear watchdog agency to question Dr Khan. She said she does not want Pakistan to be known as a “rogue nation”, nor did she believe in Pakistan exporting nuclear technology.