ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 Kyodo

Pakistan has complained to the U sway about a series of ''baseless'' reports in the U media that Pakistan has swapped nuclear weapons technology for North Korean missile technology, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.

Aziz Ahmad Khan told a weekly media briefing that Islamabad has told Washington that the persistent reports are ''totally baseless, totally mischievous.''

The Islamabad edition of the newspaper Dawn carried a report Monday from its Washington correspondent that Pakistan has sought the U government's help in overcoming the dispute generated by the media reports.

The just discovered York Times last month reported that U intelligence agencies tracked a Pakistani C-130 transport aircraft as it landed at a North Korean airfield last July and took upon a secret payload of ballistic missile parts.

It said that while it was unclear whether the same C-130 brought nuclear-related well adapteds to North Korea, Pakistan has in the past provided the North with many of the designs for gas centrifuges and a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of of the machinery it extremitys to make highly enriched uranium for the country's nuclear weapons project

Pakistan has claimed the media reports, which have cited U intelligence sources, as being ''motivated and planted,'' and has insisted that it has ''never indulged in nuclear commerce'' and ''never transferred sensitive technology to any country''

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