Japanese firms played key role in Pakistan's nuclear programme

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Source: Press Trust of India

Islamabad/Tokyo, Feb 16 (PTI) In what could come as a major embarrassment to Japan's strident anti-nuclear stance, Japanese companies have been found to have played a key role in supplying at least 6,000 ring magnets and other materials to rogue Pakistani scientist A Q Khan.

This supply "knowingly or unknowingly" helped Islamabad to acquire nuclear capability and were incorporated in its supply framework, it emerged today.

"Japanese companies played a key role in supplying equipment used for Pakistan's nuclear development," Japan's Kyodo News reported, quoting the outcome of its investigations in Islamabad and Tokyo.

Comments by Khan and former employees of the companies reveal in detail for the first time how leading Japanese manufacturers knowingly and unknowingly helped Pakistan acquire nuclear capability and were incorporated into its supply framework.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Let me get this straight: the country who lived by the motto "nukes for me, not for thee!"...

is now whining about fair play?

Get the fuck out.

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2. and media continues to pretend AQ Khan was never abetted by Bush and his BCCI pals

.