Sino-Pak n-deal “cocking a snook” at the US, the world: expert

New Delhi: A Sino-Pak n-deal set to be unveiled as early as next week, will in effect be "cocking a snook" at the world as it will be outside the purview of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), noted security expert Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (retd)  warned this Monday.

Chashma nuclear power plant constructed by China

Having been rebuffed by the United States in its attempt to get a civil nuclear pact along the same lines as the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Pakistan turned towards China and both countries are now set to unveil a deal that envisages the supply of atleast two nuclear reactors to Pakistan.

Speaking at a seminar here on "Nuclear Arsenals post-2010", organised by the Indian Navy-funded National Maritime Foundation (NMF), Cdr Bhaskar said, "it now appears that China will soon announce its deal with Pakistan to export two nuclear reactors."

Commodore Bhaskar is a director at the think tank.

"This will be without NSG concurrence and despite the many misgivings about Pakistan's track record, its linkages to terror and radical ideologies," he said.

"One can infer that this is the equivalent of China announcing its own autonomy in the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) domain and that the US is no longer the determining factor in matters nuclear," Cdr Bhaskar contended.