Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said Pakistan was considering to send parts of nuclear centrifuges to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for inspection, the local news paper Dawn reported Friday.
"To end the issue once and for all we want to send nuclear centrifuges to Vienna for inspection and the matter is under consideration," said the president in an interview to the local Aaj TV channel on Thursday evening.
Musharraf said that during the nuclear proliferation probe in Iran, IAEA got suspicious about how and from where Iran had got nuclear centrifuges.
The controversy on Pakistan's alleged transfer of nuclear centrifuges would end for good after the inspection in Vienna, he added.
The president dispelled impression that any nuclear proliferation had taken place from Pakistan and said the focus of investigations was about finding out those involved in proliferation to Iran.
He reiterated that the country's nuclear installations were fully secure, adding that no external force was pressurising Pakistan in this regard.
Pakistan in early March admitted its nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has sold to Iran centrifuges, used to enrich uranium into either fuel for nuclear power plants or the explosive core of atom bombs.
The IAEA hopes that in comparing centrifuge parts from Pakistan with those found in Iran, they could ascertain if Iran was telling the truth.
If the two match, it would indicate that Iran acquired the highly enriched uranium contamination from outside, not from its own enrichment activities.