No Chance of Nuclear Deal for Pakistan, Bush Says

U.S. President George W. Bush indicated Saturday that the United States was unlikely in the foreseeable future to offer Pakistan a civilian nuclear agreement comparable to the one struck last week with India, the New York Times reported (see GSN, March 3).

Bush and Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf discussed the issue Saturday morning.

“I explained that Pakistan and India are different countries with different needs and different histories,” Bush said at news conference later that day with Musharraf. “So as we proceed forward, our strategy will take in effect those well-known differences.”

Bush administration officials had said earlier that nuclear proliferation and terrorism remained concerns in Pakistan that would preclude such a deal between Washington and Islamabad, according to the Times (Bumiller/Gall, New York Times, March 5).

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