Japan Seeks Khan Information From Pakistan

Japan has asked Pakistan for more information about former top Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan’s connections to North Korea, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Khan is suspected of providing Pyongyang with nuclear technology (see GSN, April 4).

“The Japanese foreign minister urged the Pakistani side to provide Japan more information on so-called Dr. A.Q. Khan’s connections,” Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said after talks between Nobutaka Machimura and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri.

Takashima did not reveal Kasuri’s response to the request, according to AP (Sadaqat Jan, Associated Press/HiPakistan, April 7).

Tokyo also announced yesterday it would resume loans to Islamabad, halted over Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998, Agence France-Presse reported.

“Japanese foreign minister conveyed the message that Japan is intending to reopen the Japanese yen loan, which was suspended due to the nuclear issue,” said spokesman Takashima (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 7).

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