Islamabad, Dec 6 (ANI): Pakistan has reportedly expressed its desire to be allowed access to uranium from Australia, after a long-standing ban on exporting the substance to India was overturned.
India welcomed Sunday's vote by Australia's governing Labour Party to drop the ban on the sale of uranium.
However, Pakistan's High Commissioner to Australia Abdul Malik Abdullahif has said that Australia is willing to export uranium to India then it should sell it to Pakistan as well, the Daily Times reports.
Australia, which holds an estimated 40 percent of the world's uranium, already exports it to China, Japan, Taiwan and the US.
It has traditionally banned uranium sales to countries that are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, including India and Pakistan.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard persuaded her party that India was being so closely watched by the international community that the sale would be safe. (ANI)
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