UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1: Mohammed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Agency (IAEA) has applauded Pakistan for extending extraordinary cooperation with the agency on resolving many of the Iranian nuclear programme’s “pieces of the puzzle.”

In an interview with New Delhi Television to be broadcast on Friday, partial script of which was made available to Dawn on Thursday, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said: “We are getting good cooperation from Pakistan so I really want to make that clear.”

“Pakistan for the last year has been cooperating with us [IAEA) in resolving many of the Iranian pieces of the puzzle. In terms of contamination for example, or sources of supply, the Pakistani government has been cooperating,” he declared.

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