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<div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1987August%2Fpakistan-1_101013113240.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img>Ronald Reagan and Zia-ul-Haq<p>Pakistan's covert, worldwide programme to beg, steal or smuggle nuclear technology has had a nasty habit of exploding into controversy just when the negotiations on the US arms aid package are in a critical phase.</p><p>Last fortnight, as American papers reported, for a whole week, on incidents of Pakistani nuclear smuggling and its consequences, the Indian side was not complaining. "The US Administration has to make up its mind. This is only another evidence of what has gone on for some time," said Indian Ambassador P.K. Kaul. India also formally conveyed its "concern" to the US Government.</p><p>Recently, US undercover agents arrested A.Z. Parvez, a Pakistani citizen-turned-Canadian for trying to buy 25 tonnes of the highly specialised alloy (maraging 350 steel) from Reading, Pennsylvania. The alloy is used only in nuclear plants. Three days later, a court in Sacramento, California, indicted an American couple, Arnold and Rona Mandel and their Hong Kong associate Leung Yu Hung for smuggling nuclear equipment to Pakistan.</p><p>The developments sent a clear message to the US Congress: despite assurances to the contrary, Pakistan was continuing with its nuclear programme, the one stumbling block in its relationship with an administration always eager to paper over its faults. But given the American laws, the public stance and Jewish concern over an Islamic nation acquiring nuclear weapons, such indiscretions are hard to ignore. "The anti-proliferation law-makers were upset and we were having a hard enough time after revelations of Pakistani smuggling from Europe (India Today, July 31) when this new disaster came," said a senior US official.</p><p>The frontline newspapers reacted with outrage. "Pakistan has resorted to systematic theft and smuggling," said the Washington Post. The New York Times was more stringent: "The baldness of Pakistan's latest perfidy has shaken even those who had hoped to paper differences....It is time for stronger steps." Pakistan's defence was that the smuggling was a "rogue" operation; that Dr Abdul Qadir Khan was operating on his own; and it issued an arrest warrant against retired Brigadier Inam for whom Parvez was working. Inam, however, had disappeared.</p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div><table><tbody><tr><td><b>The continuing incidents of nuclear smuggling by Pakistan remain the one stumbling block in its relationship with a US Administration always eager to overlook its faults. </b><br></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>The US Administration, keen to push through the $4.2 billion aid (Rs 5,418 crore) package, faced congressional wrath. "I am appalled," said Brooklyn Democrat Stephen Solarz, author of a law barring US aid to a country which tries illegally to obtain nuclear materials and technology from the US. The incident was an "outrageous violation of our laws", he added.</p><p>For Ohio Senator John Glenn this occurred when he was still questioning the Administration's stand on Pakistani smuggling operations in Europe. His aides now say he suspects the Administration knew about Parvez for several months but concealed it to push the aid package through Congress.</p><p>But they obviously failed to keep it under wraps long enough as US lawmakers are still to vote for the final aid package. Solarz defiantly called renewed hearings of the House subcommittee that he chairs. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Richard Murphy told the Solarz committee that while the Administration was committed to implement proliferation laws, it was waiting for the completion of explanations from Pakistan, its "trusted and deserving friend". </p><p>But there were some ominous signals. On April 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had defeated 11-8 a move to cut aid to Pakistan as two democrats voted with the Republicans. Both, reportedly, have fresh doubts now. With this new twist to the lobbying battle on Capitol Hill, India is pinning its hopes on the anti-nuclear lobby, which Pakistan dismisses as "the group of Zionists". And the Pakistani ethnic press has begun a smear campaign against Solarz, who has said as much in an open letter to Indian residents in the US. Pakistan, mean while, is strongly mobilising support on the Hill by arch-conservatives and even some Democrats.</p><p>The key to the issue is Afghanistan, which is the epitome of the Reagan doctrine of supporting anti-communist movements. Reagan is disinclined to push Pakistan into cutting off supplies to the Mujahedin, a point indirectly underscored by Zia in Karachi last fortnight: "Pakistan is not America's policeman in South Asia. Pakistan has its independent, non-aligned foreign policy." In other words: if you push me too far I will talk to the Russians.</p><p>That, obviously, is the last thing the US wants and yet it cannot go against the Solarz and Glenn-Symington amendments on nuclear proliferation. What it desperately needs is a middle ground.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Aug 15, 1987</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

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<div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1987August%2Fpakistan-1_101013113240.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div>Ronald Reagan and Zia-ul-Haq<p>Pakistan's covert, worldwide programme to beg, steal or smuggle nuclear technology has had a nasty habit of exploding into controversy just when the negotiations on the US arms aid package are in a critical phase.</p><p>Last fortnight, as American papers reported, for a whole week, on incidents of Pakistani nuclear smuggling and its consequences, the Indian side was not complaining. "The US Administration has to make up its mind. This is only another evidence of what has gone on for some time," said Indian Ambassador P.K. Kaul. India also formally conveyed its "concern" to the US Government.</p><p>Recently, US undercover agents arrested A.Z. Parvez, a Pakistani citizen-turned-Canadian for trying to buy 25 tonnes of the highly specialised alloy (maraging 350 steel) from Reading, Pennsylvania. The alloy is used only in nuclear plants. Three days later, a court in Sacramento, California, indicted an American couple, Arnold and Rona Mandel and their Hong Kong associate Leung Yu Hung for smuggling nuclear equipment to Pakistan.</p><p>The developments sent a clear message to the US Congress: despite assurances to the contrary, Pakistan was continuing with its nuclear programme, the one stumbling block in its relationship with an administration always eager to paper over its faults. But given the American laws, the public stance and Jewish concern over an Islamic nation acquiring nuclear weapons, such indiscretions are hard to ignore. "The anti-proliferation law-makers were upset and we were having a hard enough time after revelations of Pakistani smuggling from Europe (India Today, July 31) when this new disaster came," said a senior US official.</p><p>The frontline newspapers reacted with outrage. "Pakistan has resorted to systematic theft and smuggling," said the Washington Post. The New York Times was more stringent: "The baldness of Pakistan's latest perfidy has shaken even those who had hoped to paper differences....It is time for stronger steps." Pakistan's defence was that the smuggling was a "rogue" operation; that Dr Abdul Qadir Khan was operating on his own; and it issued an arrest warrant against retired Brigadier Inam for whom Parvez was working. Inam, however, had disappeared.</p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style><table style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);" align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" width="280"><tbody><tr><td><b>The continuing incidents of nuclear smuggling by Pakistan remain the one stumbling block in its relationship with a US Administration always eager to overlook its faults. </b><br></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>The US Administration, keen to push through the $4.2 billion aid (Rs 5,418 crore) package, faced congressional wrath. "I am appalled," said Brooklyn Democrat Stephen Solarz, author of a law barring US aid to a country which tries illegally to obtain nuclear materials and technology from the US. The incident was an "outrageous violation of our laws", he added.</p><p>For Ohio Senator John Glenn this occurred when he was still questioning the Administration's stand on Pakistani smuggling operations in Europe. His aides now say he suspects the Administration knew about Parvez for several months but concealed it to push the aid package through Congress.</p><p>But they obviously failed to keep it under wraps long enough as US lawmakers are still to vote for the final aid package. Solarz defiantly called renewed hearings of the House subcommittee that he chairs. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Richard Murphy told the Solarz committee that while the Administration was committed to implement proliferation laws, it was waiting for the completion of explanations from Pakistan, its "trusted and deserving friend". </p><p>But there were some ominous signals. On April 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had defeated 11-8 a move to cut aid to Pakistan as two democrats voted with the Republicans. Both, reportedly, have fresh doubts now. With this new twist to the lobbying battle on Capitol Hill, India is pinning its hopes on the anti-nuclear lobby, which Pakistan dismisses as "the group of Zionists". And the Pakistani ethnic press has begun a smear campaign against Solarz, who has said as much in an open letter to Indian residents in the US. Pakistan, mean while, is strongly mobilising support on the Hill by arch-conservatives and even some Democrats.</p><p>The key to the issue is Afghanistan, which is the epitome of the Reagan doctrine of supporting anti-communist movements. Reagan is disinclined to push Pakistan into cutting off supplies to the Mujahedin, a point indirectly underscored by Zia in Karachi last fortnight: "Pakistan is not America's policeman in South Asia. Pakistan has its independent, non-aligned foreign policy." In other words: if you push me too far I will talk to the Russians.</p><p>That, obviously, is the last thing the US wants and yet it cannot go against the Solarz and Glenn-Symington amendments on nuclear proliferation. What it desperately needs is a middle ground.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Aug 15, 1987</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

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