Pakistan denies centrifuge report
Pakistan has denied reports that it will hand uranium-enriching components to UN inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear programme.
It earlier admitted the former head of its own programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, gave Iran similar centrifuge parts.
Diplomats close to the inquiry told reporters that Pakistan would give the parts to a UN laboratory in Austria.
A Pakistani official said these reports were "baseless and speculative".
"We are not providing any centrifuges," Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told the AFP news agency.
The reports said that Pakistan would give used centrifuge parts to the UN inspectors so that they could be compared to centrifuges found in Iran with suspicious traces of uranium.
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