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Pakistan nuclear issue with nigeria Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/8098873.htm http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/8098873.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 04, 2004 Pakistan Official Offer Aid to Nigeria GILBERT Da COSTA Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria - Pakistan's top military official on Wednesday offered military assistance to Nigeria's armed forces, Nigeria's defense ministry said. Pakistan's military chief of staff, Gen. Muhammad Aziz Khan, said in Nigeria that Pakistan is determining how it "can assist Nigeria's armed forces to strengthen its military capability and to acquire nuclear power," the Nigerian defense ministry said in a statement. The statement did not elaborate and it wasn't clear what was meant by "nuclear power." However, anything dealing with nuclear arms would be surprising in view of the recent harsh international criticism directed at Pakistan following disclosures that it shared nuclear arms information with other countries. Pakistan denied the allegation. "This is a baseless story and a conspiracy to hurt our image," Pakistan's information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, told The Associated Press Thursday in Islamabad. Last month, one of Pakistan's top nuclear scientists admitted that he sold nuclear technology to Iran, as well as North Korea and Libya - all nations on the U.S. list of terrorism sponsors. The announcement came less than two months after Nigeria announced that North Korea had agreed to share missile technology with Nigeria, an offer that was subsequently denied by North Korea. Nigeria said any North Korean missile help would be used for "peacekeeping" and to protect its territory. It said it was not seeking nuclear technology or weapons of mass destruction. Under former army dictators, Nigeria's military was viewed as an international pariah for ruthlessly suppressing dissent. Involvement in African peace missions since elections restored civilian rule in 1999 has helped repair its image abroad.

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