Islamabad: The US has asked Pakistan to provide more information about a civilian nuclear arrangement it has concluded with China, America's Special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said.
Holbrooke's statement on the nuclear issue, made during an interview with visiting Pakistani journalists, followed an earlier comment by his deputy, Frank Ruggiero, who told reporters in Washington that the US was 'not in any discussions with the Pakistanis on civil nuclear cooperation'.
Pakistan may 'quietly try to persuade the US at least to withdraw its objection to an arrangement it has made with China for building new civil nuclear plants at Chashma', the Dawn newspaper quoted its sources as saying.
Holbrooke, when asked to comment on US objections to the arrangement, said: "We have asked for more information on the Chinese-Pakistan arrangement to see how they fit in with international regimes".