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IAEA safeguards grant India nuclear weapons status: Pakistan

Siddharth Varadarajan May move amendments to draft in Board meeting New Delhi: In a four-page letter addressed to Board members of the IAEA, Pakistan has attacked the draft Indian safeguards agreement for envisaging termination conditions and fuel supply arrangements which could allow India to "divert part of [any imported] fuel for weapons purposes.' At the same time, it said that the Indian model should not be "discriminatory' and should be applied to states such as itself.