Same authors, same stories, no facts

ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office and ISPR have strongly rejected the assertions and insinuations made in a Washington Post story on Dr A.Q. Khan and said it was a baseless.
Commenting on the news story “Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear programme in North Korea” by R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick, published in The Washington Post on 28 December 2009, the Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that at no point in time were there any authorised transfers of nuclear related materials.
In fact the so-called A.Q. Khan proliferation network was effectively dismantled and all relevant information shared with the IAEA and concerned states, Spokesperson Mr Abdul Basit said Tuesday, adding that the Government had also devised and continues to implement a foolproof safety and security regime for nuclear-related materials. “In short, A.Q. Khan is a closed chapter. There is no point over-dramatising the A.Q. Khan related stories, which are more fiction than facts”, the Spokesman concluded.
TheNation has learnt that the article “Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear programme in North Korea”, is written by the same authors who earlier had filed a story “A Nuclear Power’s Act of Proliferation” that accused China of supporting Pakistan’s Nuclear Programme.
The latest story by these reporters has appeared in the same US newspaper that had published the esarlier story a mere 46 days earlier. In that story, the reporters tried to establish a connection between Pakistan and China’s nuclear programmes. This time, Smith and Warrick have tried to establish a connection between Pakistan and North Korea’s nuclear programmes! Ironically, the article is filled with conjecture rather than fact, clearly showing it was a pre-planned game to establish a link between China, Pakistan and North Korea.
, according to many experts in Pakistan. Undoubtedly one can expect more of the same nonsense from these reporters with an agenda and their newspaper.