Pakistan on Thursday questioned the concerns spoken by India more than the option of a United States-Pakistan civil nuclear contract and pass on to a 2008 statement by the former External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, to rendering the common shifts in the Indian position.
Amid reports of the U.S. being open to hearing out Pakistan's case for a civil nuclear deal, official basis in India said on Monday: “We hope the international community would strike the right balance between meeting energy needs of any country while taking on board its track record with regard to explosion of nuclear technology and weapons of mass obliteration.”
. “In respect of civil nuclear assistance between Pakistan and the U.S., we would like to give confidence civil nuclear cooperation — its full use of nuclear power — as we believe every country has its right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” Mr. Mukherjee had said in Washington.
Responding to query on this attitude in use by India on a possible Pakistan-U.S. civil nuclear deal — similar to the one America has with India — Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said every sovereign country had a right to fortify its two-sided relations
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