Wikileaks: US and Pakistan deny revelations.

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   Pakistani and US officials presented a united front today against revelations in the WikiLeaks cables that portray a fragile relationship dogged by subterfuge, suspicion and worries over the safety of Pakistan's expanding nuclear arsenal. The American ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, visited the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, at his hilltop residence in Islamabad where the men played down the significance of the leaked dispatches. Gilani said Pakistan's national interests "would not be compromised by such mischief in any manner", while Munter said: "Working together, we will get past the WikiLeaks problems." But outside Pakistan experts in nuclear counter proliferation said the leaked cables exposed a serious threat of nuclear terrorism that western governments have deliberately played down – until now. "The intersection of terror and proliferation is nowhere more evident than in Pakistan," said Mark Fitzpatrick of the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Officials have been talking about this for years." "The real aim of US strategy is to de-nuclearise Pakistan," the Dawn newspaper reported him as saying.

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