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Qureshi gives go-ahead to IAEA for nuke plants inspection
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan entered two nuclear power plants with China to steer Pakistan out of energy crisis and the agreement with Iran is in line with the same perspective, Geo News reported Thursday.He said this while addressing a ceremony in connection with inauguration of Muslim Commercial Bank’s new premises here and later on talked to media.
Pakistan is a responsible country and no such incident ever happened with regard to its nuclear program that could risk human life, Qureshi said adding Pak-China power plants are open to International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA), whenever they want they may inspect them.
He observed the agreement of Afghan Transit Trade entered between Pakistan and Afghanistan is 45 years old, adding a new treaty is in the offing to be entered with Afghanistan, for which an inter-ministerial committee is working and 90 percent work has been completed in this regard.
Similarly, a cargo train is being mulled over to run between Islamabad and Turkey, for which experiment has been conducted and Pakistan Railways are being upgraded for the purpose, he informed.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv