Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, Jahangir Karamat has said that Pakistan's energy needs are increasing and they must be fulfilled. He was talking to VoA in the backdrop of Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri's interview and Pakistan's Foreign Ministry's statement as well as his own recent remarks about Indo-US nuclear agreement.
He said the foreign minister had said in the interview that the Indo-US agreement would mar international non-proliferation agreements. When asked whether the current situation reflects deterioration of relation, he said the Foreign Office statements were very much clear.
"What I have said is not a new thing. We have been saying that Pakistan and India both are in South Asia. Although their (US) policies may be different for both of us, but we also have energy requirements", he added.
To a question as when the United States has vociferously stated that it would not ink any such agreement with Pakistan, how Islamabad would meet its energy needs, he said Pakistan would fulfil its requirements by hydro or thermal sources. Some of it will be fulfilled through nuclear energy.
He said though the United States has said that it was not possible right now but we are presenting our requirements. He hoped as Pakistan and the United States enjoy good relations, so the policy of the US will be changed at some time. About nuclear co-operation with China, Jehanghir Karamat said that Pakistan has a very old co-operation with China. The safe guarded reactors were made with their co-operation.
He said this co-operation would continue, adding as Indo-Russian relations have not come to an end so old relationship between Pakistan and China could not stop.