Pak refuses Rice's request for US access to AQ Khan

Press Trust of India

Washington, March 30, 200504:45 IST

Pakistan rejected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's request to allow Americans to question disgraced scientist AQ Khan over his alleged role in Iran's nuclear programme, a report said in Washington on Tuesday.

Rice, who was in Pakistan last week, requested direct American access to Khan "so that the US intelligence community could ask him about his nuclear handiwork in Iran.

"But all she obtained was permission to submit a list of questions to Khan," The Washington Times said.

It also said that both the US and Israel "have contingency plans to launch air strikes against Iran's 12 to 15 nuclear sites, most of them underground."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1299217,00050001.htm

First India tell Rice and the bush Administration to shove it;

now Pakistan tells them all where to go