Islamabad: Pakistan on December 20 termed as "completely false and motivated" a report in a UK daily that a Pakistani scientist had offered Iraq nuclear weapons designs in 1990 and said Islamabad was seriously considering raising the matter in the UN Security Council.

"Pakistan was seriously considering raising this matter in the UN Security Council when it takes up its seat beginning from January to call for an investigation to reveal the source of such mischievous allegations and their true motivation," Foreign Secretary Riaz H Khokhar said responding to the December 20 report in 'The Times' published from London.

"To put the record straight, Pakistan may also ask for full access to the Iraqi documents," he said.

He said the same allegation was made in 1998 in a 'Newsweek' article.

The matter was thoroughly investigated at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is responsible for Iraqi nuclear disarmament and possesses all relevant information relating to the Iraqi nuclear programme.

"The allegation proved to be completely false," he was quoted as saying by the official APP news agency.

Consequently, the IAEA had written to the 'Newsweek' that the story was "inconsistent with the information available with the IAEA", he said, adding the present case was simply a "malicious regurgitation" of an allegation which had been found to be completely false.

Khokhar said the campaign of "inspired leaks" based on "pure fiction" followed similar "baseless" allegation regarding Pakistan's co-operation with North Korea.

PTI