Moscow: Describing Pakistan as the "main" proliferating nation in the world, a Russian journal has claimed that Islamabad continued supplying sensitive nuclear technology to Libya even after the September 11 strikes on the US (United States).

In its latest issue, 'Arms Control & Security Letters' journal published by Moscow-based influential PIR centre has written, "When we say Libya we should now thrice think Pakistan.

"Pakistan's last deliveries to Libya, it appears, occurred after September 11, 2001, when the United States strongly warned President Pervez Musharraf about the inadmissibility of sharing nuclear technologies and received the appropriate promise from him," PIR centre director Vladimir Orlov wrote in his article analysing Libya's decision to give up its mass destruction weapons' programme.

"Pakistan is the main proliferating State in the world today. Traces of its nuclear technologies can be found in North Korea, Iran, and now Libya," Orlov said.

He described Pakistan as an "unstable and weak State", where the Central Government does not control significant swaths of territory and where international terrorist organisations find sympathy.

"Can the international community continue to be reconciled to a nuclear Pakistan that is a proliferator?" Orlov asks, noting that it is yet to be determined who else benefited from its nuclear brains.

Pakistan's proliferation issue was among the key issues at just concluded US-Russian consultations on non-proliferation.