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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Pakistan seeks Australia uranium after India ban liftedLAHORE: Pakistan says it should be allowed access to uranium from Australia, after a long-standing ban on exporting the substance to India was overturned, BBC News reported on Monday. Delhi welcomed Sunday’s vote by Australia’s governing Labour Party to drop the ban on the sale of uranium. But Pakistan’s high commissioner to Australia responded by saying his country should get equal treatment, the report said. Australia, which holds an estimated 40 percent of the world’s uranium, already exports it to China, Japan, Taiwan and the US. It has traditionally banned uranium sales to countries that are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – this includes both India and Pakistan. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard persuaded her party that India was being so closely watched by the international community that the sale would be safe. daily times monitor
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk