PAKISTAN plans to expand the controversial uranium enrichment plant at Kahuta near Islamabad to provide fuel for a nuclear power reactor being bought from China, according to senior government officials.
Abdul Qader Khan, director of the research laboratories at Kahuta, said, "We believe that by the time we have the Chinese reactor operational, we will have enough fuel to feed it."
The expansion could further strain Pakistan's relations with the US, which cut off $573 million of aid in 1990 because it feared the Kahuta plant had produced sufficient highly enriched uranium for several nuclear bombs.
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