Monday, June 13, 2016: Sartaj Aziz,who is the Pakistan’s top Foreign Affairs Advisor said, “Islamabad’s credentials for the membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) are stronger than India’s if the 48-nation cartel agrees to form a uniform criteria for non-Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) states.”

Aziz,at an interview said,Pakistan has diplomatically engaged numerous countries over the criteria-based approach for non-NPT countries”.

“If the group forms such a uniform criteria, then Pakistan has stronger credentials for NSG membership than India,” the advisor said.

“Our strategy was to apply after India did, after which we would have immediately followed. We have had our application in an advance state of readiness for the past three months for this this purpose,” Aziz said.

He further claimed that, “Pakistan has gradually gathered support for the criteria based approach”.

As per the advisor said, “Pakistan has come a long way since then and everyone has witnessed Islamabad safeguarding its nuclear assets”.

Aziz aforesaid that, “If you compare it with India, when our neigbouring country conducted a nuclear test in 1974, it misused the nuclear supplies given to it for peaceful purposes, which led to the formation of NSG. After that nuclear fissile material was stolen from India, but such an instance has never occurred in Pakistan,”.