ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Pakistan on Wednesday categorically denied shifting of some nuclear equipment abroad. Speaking to Iran's IRNA news agency here on a recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency , Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan rejected the allegation of Islamabad's role in this connection.

But he admitted that some greedy elements might have done so. "We have destroyed their network and apprised the people of Pakistan and the world community of the actions we took thereon." He said a legal action had been taken against certain individuals involved in the nuclear-proliferation. A follow-up action was underway, he added.

About some media reports, he said these were "totally baseless and unfounded" that Islamabad had passed information about Iran and Libya's nuclear programme to the United States. He made it clear that Pakistan had never co-operated with Iran in its nuclear initiative in any manner whatsoever. -PPI