China denies missile technology sale to Pak.

BEIJING, JULY 4. China today categorically denied that it was selling missile technology to Pakistan.

``I want to state clearly that there is no such thing as Chinese sales of missile technology to Pakistan,'' the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr. Sun Yuxi, told a press conference in response to a report by The New York times. ``The report is totally groundless.''

The newspaper said on Sunday that in a series of classified briefings in Congress, intelligence agencies described how China stepped up the shipment of specialty steels, guidance systems and technical expertise to Pakistan.

Islamabad, which conducted nuclear tests in 1998 shortly after similar tests by India, said on Monday that it had no missile cooperation with China ``at the present moment''.

- Reuters

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