WP deliberately recycles old news

ISLAMABAD – The US media and Establishment never tire of using every opportunity to target Pakistan’s nuclear programme and all those associated with it. If China can be dragged in, the situation is exploited to the hilt. Now with Obama all set for his China visit, the waters are being muddied by dragging in old news regarding Pakistan-China cooperation in the nuclear field. Most of the nuclear weapons cooperation between China and Pakistan happened before China was accepted as a member of the IAEA in 1984 and before it acceded to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1992. Pakistan still is not party to the NPT. So neither state broke any international law commitments in this cooperation. After China became a party to the NPT, it only offered Pakistan civilian nuclear cooperation and under full IAEA safeguards.
The other interesting development right now in terms of the latest Washington Post story on Pakistan-China nuclear cooperation is the pattern coming into play. Connect the dots between the Hersh story, which was published four months after his visit to Pakistan, and The Washington Post story that has followed within days, and the mala fide intent becomes clearer.
Our Special Correspondent from Washington adds: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s visit to China, a leading American newspaper reported Friday that Beijing provided Pakistan with weapons grade uranium for two bombs in 1982, citing notes written by Dr. A. Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist.
“The uranium transfer in five stainless-steel boxes was part of a broad-ranging, secret nuclear deal approved years earlier by (Chairman) Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (in 1976) ...”, according to what the Washington Post described as the accounts by the Pakistan nuclear scientist.