Pakistan's top Foreign affairs Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz said Islamabad’s credentials for the membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) are stronger than India. He said this during an exclusive interview with DawnNews.
He said, "If the group forms such a uniform criteria, then Pakistan has stronger credentials for NSG membership than India. Our strategy was to apply after India did, after which we would have immediately followed. We have had our application in an advance state of readiness for the past three months for this purpose."
He also said that Pakistan has slowly gathered more support for this approach and he also expressed confidence due to Pakistan's efforts. Aziz further said, "If you compare it with India, when our neighbouring country conducted a nuclear test in 1974, it misused the nuclear supplies given to it for peaceful purposes, which led to the formation of NSG.
After that nuclear fissile material was stolen from India, but such an instance has never occurred in Pakistan." The NSG is a 48 Nations club dedicated to curb nuclear weapons.
