Pakistan hands over centrifuge parts to IAEA
In a major turnaround, Pakistan on Thursday confirmed it had sent some parts of an old centrifuge to the UN atomic agency to help it establish whether Iran has been secretly developing nuclear weapons.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requested the parts in connection with its investigations to determine whether contamination found at Iran's nuclear facilities had come from Pakistan or any other source, a foreign ministry official said.
"Components of an old and discarded centrifuge, which have no bearing on our national security, they have been sent with our experts to IAEA for their analysis," ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told AFP.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Pakistan and the IAEA "are cooperating and analysis of the samples is on the way", agency spokesman Marc Gwozdecky said in Vienna, declining to specify where the analyses were being conducted.
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