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Some governments affected by the rebel movements were even more cautious than Reagan. Pakistan blocked Afghan rebel leaders from traveling to the meeting from Pakistani base camps. Mujahedin Colonel Ghulam Wardak flew to Africa from Washington, where he is recovering from battle wounds. Nervous Thai authorities, according to a Lehrman aide, created "tremendous problems" before allowing Laotian Guerrilla Leader Pa Kao Her to fly to the conference from Bangkok. But South Africa, which supports Savimbi, allowed participants to fly from Johannesburg...
...involve any Afghan army units. In addition, the Soviets enjoy overwhelmingly superior firepower. Said Majrooh: "The resistance has nothing to hit back with against something like this." There is some concern in Pakistan that the Soviet forces will be tempted to pursue fleeing Afghan rebels over the Pakistani border. Late last week Pakistan issued a strong protest to Afghanistan, accusing that country's warplanes of killing eleven people in a bombing attack on the Pakistani village of Sweer...
...further example of Khan's activities came to light last year in Canada, during the trial of three Pakistani-born naturalized Canadians on charges that they had tried to circumvent local export controls. Two officials of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission allegedly asked the trio in July 1980 to buy various components for a device that can be used to spin high-speed centrifuges. The equipment is manufactured by General Electric Co. at a plant in Hudson Falls, N.Y., and at U.S. factories of Westinghouse Electric Corp., RCA Corp. and Motorola Inc. The three Canadians made ten shipments to Pakistan...
There have been indications that Pakistan is at work on the task of actually assembling an explosive device. In April 1984, after six months of surveillance, U.S. Customs agents in Houston detained Nazir Ahmed Vaid, a Pakistani businessman. In a case similar to this month's Los Angeles indictment involving Israel, Vaid was charged with attempting to ship to Pakistan 50 Krytrons labeled "bulb/ switches." In September he was given a suspended sentence of two years and five years' probation. He was then deported to Pakistan. Only later did prosecutors learn that documents that had been in their possession...
Throughout the last few years of the Pakistani saga, the Reagan Administration has been severely criticized in Congress for giving military assistance to the Zia government without extracting further concrete assurances about Pakistan's nuclear program. The official U.S. position remains that Pakistan does not have atomic weapons and has not assembled the nuclear explosives to make them. But a top U.S. official says that the Administration remains "concerned" about Pakistan's efforts to obtain weapons technology. Washington discounts Indian suspicions of Pakistan's nuclear intentions as part of the long-standing rivalry between those two countries. Says a State...