Sunday, May 29, 2011

WIKILEAKS - Pak Cables, DAWN: Don’t provide Iran with a foothold, US told Pak!

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By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui | From the Newspaper.


Richard Boucher, Colin Powell
Photo by AP (Thumbnail illustration by Faraz Aamer Khan/Dawn.com).

KARACHI: A US State Department official in a meeting urged President Asif Ali Zardari against accepting Iran’s offer of concessional oil for Pakistan and providing Iran with a foothold in Pakistan, a ‘Secret’ American diplomatic cable made available to Dawn reveals.

The meeting between Richard Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia during the Bush administration, and President Zardari took place on October 18, 2008 at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, during which Mr Zardari apprised the visiting official of the Iranian offer that the President “did not believe he could refuse.”

“How could he go to the National Assembly and tell them Iran had offered the assistance and Pakistan had turned it down, he asked rhetorically,” the then US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson wrote in the cable dated October 22, 2008, referring to President Zardari. She added that, “Boucher reminded him of Ambassador Haqqani’s recent conversation with Deputy Secretary Negroponte in which the Deputy cautioned against providing Iran with a toehold in Pakistan.”

US, definitely, demonstrates that it is the sole Protector of the Nuclear Proliferation Initiative of the International Community.  


But will it ever dismantle its own Nuclear Arsenal? 


I love to see a World free of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', in all forms!



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