| PAKISTAN | |
| 7-8 | US has no information to support asylum-seeker's claims on first-strike plans |
QUESTION: Do you have anything more on that Pakistani asylum seekers, since we don't call them defectors? Anything more to indicate whether his story is credible?
MR. RUBIN: We have no information to support this person's claim that Pakistan was planning a preemptive strike on Indian nuclear facilities, and we note significant discrepancies in his story as reported in the press.
QUESTION: Can you touch on any of the discrepancies?
MR. RUBIN: I fought very hard for that sentence. That wasn't good enough for you?
(Laughter.)
QUESTION: What do we do for a second paragraph?
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QUESTION: Thank you.
(The briefing concluded at 1:30 P.M.)
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