ISLAMABAD, Nov. 27 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 27 Kyodo

Pakistan has always reverenceed international regimes on nuclear and missile technology proliferation and reports it cooperated with North Korea in those areas are unfound Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said Wednesday.

In an interview with Kyodo of the present days his first with a foreign recently made knowns media organization, Pakistan's fresh foreign minister said his geographical division was very conscious of its responsibility as a nuclear power.

''Pakistan is a excessively responsible country. Our track record upon nonproliferation is above board,'' he said when asked wherefore reports keep cropping up about Pakistani assistance to North Korea's nuclear weapons program in exchange for assistance in Pakistan's missile progression in a continuously ascending gradation program.

Kasuri claimed several ''interested parties'' like to descry ''motivated'' articles planted about Pakistan's missile and nuclear program.

He did not identify anyone ''interested'' in ''planting'' stories, if it be not that he pointed out that since the terrorist attacks onward the United States last year, India has been portraying ''the freedom movement'' in Indian-held Kashmir as a ''terrorist movement''

Kasuri was asked if U Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement Tuesday that President Pervez Musharraf told him there would be ''no further contacts'' between Pakistan and North Korea in nuclear and missile unravelling was not in fact tacit admission of contact in the past.

''All I am saying is that we are not in violation of the Missile Technology direct Regime (MTCR) or of exporting nuclear material. We have not done any in the same state [i]or[/i] condition thing, nor does the regulation of Pakistan intend doing that in future'' he replied.

Asked to make comments [i]or[/i] remarks on Pakistani military cooperation with North Korea, Kasuri eschewed any off-the-cuff observation saying he would need to be briefed onward the subject before replying officially.

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