''Pakistan Exempt from Tough U.S. Stance on WMD''

Power and Interest News Report (PINR)
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(PINR) -- The revelation that the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had been providing the designs and technology to produce nuclear fuel for nuclear weapons to Iran, North Korea and Libya for the past 15 years highlights the traditional hypocrisy between state ideology and state interests.

Khan, who had made millions of dollars selling information to countries that are part of the Bush administration's "axis of evil," oversaw a network where nuclear hardware was secretly transported on charter planes to destinations in Iran, North Korea and Libya. These three countries have earned the scorn of Washington since each of them has worked counter to U.S. interests in their respective regions.

Furthermore, evidence that some of the nuclear material sent to North Korea appeared to have been flown on government cargo planes raises questions as to how involved President Pervez Musharraf's government in Islamabad was in the nuclear proliferation. Even more concerning, American intelligence officers told the New York Times that Pakistani nuclear transfers to Libya continued through last fall.

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