Pakistan and India pledged on Sunday to work to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction but reiterated that neither would sign up to the nuclear non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that his country would do its utmost to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.
"We will fulfil the non-proliferation requirements, there is no question about that," he said. "It is not something that is in our interest that proliferation takes place."
Speaking with Kasuri at the close of a security conference here, India's national security advisor Brajesh Mishra said: "There is no hope ... that India will sign the NPT, but India is prepared to join the international community to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Mishra also said that India needed more nuclear power plants to produce extra electricity in the coming years, possibly as much as 200,000 megawatts in the long-term.