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Pak offers to swap N-data with India

Pakistan on Sunday expressed interest in exchanging information with regional rival India on the two neighbours' nuclear command and control systems.

"We need to know each others' nuclear philosophies and command and control systems," PTI quoted Pakistan High Commissioner to India Ashraf Jehangir Qazi as telling a seminar on India-Pakistan relations in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.

Pakistan has said it was willing to consider any restraint arrangement on a reciprocal basis with India and has called for an Indo-Pakistan "strategic restraint regime" to avoid a nuclear or conventional arms race.

But India has termed Pakistan's offer to include New Delhi in the nuclear security dialogue as propaganda and has said Islamabad would have to create a proper environment for talks to resume between the arch rivals.

Qazi criticised New Delhi for refusing to hold talks.

"We are ready to hold talks with India as and when India is ready. India must make up its mind. As long it doesn't make up its mind, there won't be talks," Qazi said.

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