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| Musharraf's claim on India copying nuke tech baseless: Pranab | | |
New Delhi, Sep 27 Rubbishing President Pervez Musharraf's claim that India's uranium enrichment technology "could be a copy" of a Pakistani design, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said New Delhi's nuclear programme was completely indigenous.
Reacting to Musharraf's contention in his book "In The Line Of Fire" that India's uranium enrichment programme could have benefited from a Dubai-based proliferation network set up by disgraced scientist A Q Khan, Mukherjee said India had never clandestinely obtained or exported nuclear technology.
"Absolutely bogus, we developed our own...First reactor...We were the first among the Asian countries, the developing countries to develop (the technology) through our indigenous efforts and our track record in this matter is impeccable," Mukherjee told TV news channels in New York, where he is heading the Indian delegation to the UN General Assembly.
"We did not export it to anybody, nor did we have it clandestinely from anyone. This is absolutely clear. So his (Musharraf's) allegation is absolutely baseless," he said.
Musharraf has alleged that several Indians worked for A Q Khan's network in Dubai, some of whom subsequently "vanished".
"There is a strong probability that the Indian uranium enrichment programme may also have roots in the Dubai-based network and could be a copy of the Pakistani centrifuge design," he wrote. |
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