Islamabad: Pakistan and Iran on August 29 jointly denied allegations that Islamabad helped Tehran develop its nuclear programme and said that the reports appearing in the US media were baseless and motivated.

"We reject the reports about nuclear co-operation as totally baseless and inaccurate," Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said in a joint news conference with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Karazi.

Karazi arrived on a day's visit and held talks with President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Kasuri on bilateral and trade co-operation between the two countries.

Dismissing reports appearing in the British and US media stating that Pakistan has supplied centerfuges to Iran to develop nuclear programme, Kasuri said, "Pakistan has never supplied in any manner whatsoever any assistance for Iran's nuclear programme."

Karazi said Iran's nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes and Tehran has no plan to develop nuclear weapons. On the contrary Iran was desirous of having nuclear-free zones in Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.

He said Iranian nuclear programme was indigenous and developed with technology available in Iran.

PTI