Despite sanctions and tremendous pressure for the past 30 years, successive Pakistani governments have refused to sign the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Pakistan’s principled stand is that it will not sign the NPT unless India signs it. India like Israel also have refused to sign the treaty which favors existing nuclear powers and does not allow new members to join the nuclear club. Can Zardari’s survive attempted Nuclear surrender?Kazakhstan is a very important country of Central Asia and any links created with that brotherly country would have paid dividends in spades. Kazakhstan needs to be brought into the orbit of commerce and currency and enticed with trade and barters.

A government source referred to a Central Asian nation without naming it during an off-the-record conversation. She was most probably referring to Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan has the world’s largest reservoirs of uranium and will soon become its biggest producer. Pakistan is the world’s seventh declared nuclear power and has an ambitious civilian nuclear energy program meant to help fuel Pakistan’s economic growth. The country’s biggest stock exchange at Karachi has been one of the best performing markets in Asia for the most part of this decade, fetching high profit margins for Pakistani and foreign investors. Pakistan cannot continue growth without more energy.

The deal apparently preceded the agreement India signed with Kazakhstan in January 2009 in which New Delhi reportedly agreed to buy up to 2,500 tons of uranium. International Analyst Network

Govt turned down uranium deal with Kazakhstan’ * Pakistan did not buy nuclear fuel because of budgetary constraints

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LAHORE: The government refused last year to sanction the purchase of uranium from Kazakhstan citing budgetary constraints, according to a report published on the International Analyst Network website on Tuesday.

According to the unconfirmed report, negotiators from Afghanistan and Pakistan had reached an agreement on the sale of nuclear fuel from the uranium-rich Kazakhstan to Pakistan “some time around late 2008”. Daily Times Monitor

Pakistan has been trying to purchase Uranium from various sources. It has been an uphill battle. Recently Kazakhstan agreed to sell Pakistan Uranium. This was a golden opportunity to create kinks in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) regime which sanctions sale of atomic material to countries.

An unidentified government source cited in the article “referred to a Central Asian nation” but did not name it. “She was most probably referring to Kazakhstan,” according to the author of the report.

The reported agreement “apparently preceded” an agreement between India and Kazakhstan in January 2009 in which New Delhi agreed to buy up to 2,500 tonnes of uranium.

The Pakistan-Kazakhstan agreement did not violate any international laws because Pakistan has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but the report says the only problem was “the usual opposition from US and Britain, and Australia”.

“This was Pakistan’s opportunity to break [a] fake embargo imposed by the US,” the report says. “But President Zardari refused to authorise the release of funds for the deal citing budgetary constraints.” The report says nuclear energy is essential to sustain Pakistan’s growing economy, and that the Pakistani government’s move could “possibly prove to be a blunder that Pakistan might regret in the future”. Daily Times Monitor

Mr. Asif Zardari, the old Mr. 10% and(whose new nick name is Ghaddari did not show any interest in the purchase of Uranium would would have been very useful in the Chasma project and in producing electricity for Pakistan.

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Mr. Zardari and his acolyte Mr. Haqqani, the US representative in Washington masquerading as the Pakistani ambassador did not oppose the sale of Nuclear material to Bharat (aka India). The entire staff was changed at the UN and the Foreign Office and all plans in the pipeline to oppose the sale of Atomic material to Delhi were shelved. Now the PPPP government has decided not to purchase Uranium. The purchase would have defied the NPT and the NSGand established a precedent and created links with Kazakhstan’pulling into the energy corridor that extends from Gwader to Central Asia. Creative financing should have been established allowing the Kazakhs access to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea.  Kazakhstan needs a lot of goods and services which Pakistan offers. For example JF-17 Thunders could be bartered with the Kazakhs, or Al-Khalid tanks could be exchanged. Additionally, Kazakhs students could be allowed to study in the Marine Academy and the Military Academy.

There there was the strange interview with Mr. Wolf Blitzer. When asked if US officials would be provided information about the location of Pakistani Nuclear weapons, the flustered Mr. Zardari gave a strange answer. “This information has ben previously provided to the US officials.”As CNN broke for a commercial brake, and then came back, disconcerted Mr. Zardari looked agitated and then claimed that “this information was on a need to know basis”. When pressured by Mr. Wolfowitz about what he means, he said that the “US officials will be informed on a need to know basis.”

During the entire interview, President Zardari did not say “its none of your business”, or “this is Pakistan’s problem” or that “Pakistan is a sovereign state”.

• US and Pakistani officials have begun behind-the-scenes talks aimed at achieving a greater US role in securing Pakistan’s nuclear materials
• a proposal to ship some highly enriched uranium to the United States for disposal,Now there is a report by the Boston Globe reproduced by The Nation.
• However, the new measures under consideration would for the first time give the United States access to some of Pakistan’s nuclear ingredients.
• Two of the key proposals under discussion are a joint program to secure or destroy radioactive materials

The National Assembly should step and and over rule Mr. Zardari’s obsequious behaviour.

There are other indications that something fishy is going on in Islamabad, where a government brought to power through an American-style regime-change is cooperating in what appears to be at least a freeze on Pakistani nuclear capabilities if not an outright rollback.

For example, while President Zardari was in the U.S. last week, U.S. officials leaked to the Boston Globe that Mr. Zardari’s aides are secretly negotiating the transfer of enriched Pakistani uranium to the U.S. for disposal. Pakistani newspaper The Nation described the leak as Nuclear Surrender in an editorial on May 7. International Analyst Network

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