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Gilani demands US nuclear deal

ISLAMABAD/MULTAN: India’s nuclear trade agreement with the US should open the way for a similar deal for Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday. “Pakistan will now be justified to also make a demand for a similar deal as we don’t want discrimination,” Gilani said. The US Congress approved the deal late on Wednesday ending a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India, unleashing billions of dollars of investment and drawing the world’s biggest democracy closer to the West. “Pakistan will also now make efforts for a civil nuclear (deal) and they will have to accommodate us,” he said. Gilani said the deal should not be seen as a cause for concern for Pakistan. “You don’t have to be worried about it,” Gilani told reporters in his hometown of Multan when asked about the deal.Pakistan had long opposed efforts to push the deal through. agencies

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