ISLAMABAD: Stung by US President George Bush's refusal to grant access to American nuclear know-how, Pakistan accused the United States of discriminating against it and of upsetting the balance of power in South Asia.

Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri told the Senate, the upper house of Parliament, late on Monday, that any deal to supply technology for civilian nuclear power programmes for its rival India should also available to Pakistan.

Bush, in a visit to Islamabad earlier this month immediately after concluding a nuclear accord in New Delhi, told President Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan was not being considered for a similar deal because of its different "history" and different needs.

" :blee; ," Kasuri told the upper house. "The US must have a package approach while dealing with India and Pakistan."

India and Pakistan almost went to war for a fourth time in 2002...........

i thnk both should be given a equal status!!

M.Y.Tonse