LAHORE, Oct 28: Former chief minister Manzoor Wattoo on Saturday paid glowing tributes to the late president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, saying he was the one who had resisted the US pressure and refused to cap Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

In a statement, he said the US was irritated when he had declined to make any compromise on the country’s atomic programme.

As chief minister Mr Wattoo had got an opportunity to work closely with GIK and found him thoroughly honest, constitutionalist, law-abiding and patriotic.