Pakistan not talking nukes with Saudi Arabia: Foreign secretary

‘Pakistan’s foreign secretary says his country is not holding negotiations with Saudi Arabia to sell an “off-the-shelf” nuclear weapon to the Arab country.

“Pakistan is not talking to Saudi Arabia on nuclear issues, period,” Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said on Thursday.

The remarks by the senior Pakistani official came after on May 17, British newspaper Sunday Times quoted a former US defense official as saying that Saudi Arabia has made a “strategic decision” to purchase “off-the-shelf” nuclear weapons from Pakistan.

“There has been a long-standing agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward,” the US official said.’

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