Does Saudi Arabia Have A Secret Agreement With Pakistan For Nuclear Weapons? (Updated)

Tagged for export to Saudi? A military truck transporting the Shaheen II missile during a military parade in Islamabad. Photograph: Aziz Haidari/Reuters

Does Pakistan Have Nuclear Weapons Ready To Ship To Saudi Arabia? -- Julian Borger, The Guardian

A new BBC report says they are packed and ready to go.

It has long been rumoured, and often reported, that in return for bankrolling the Pakistani nuclear weapons project, Saudi Arabia has a claim on some of those weapons in time of need. It has never been proved though, nor has it ever been clear how such a deal would work.

BBC Newsnight had a stab at those questions last night, in a report saying that Saudi Arabia could obtain nukes "at will" from Pakistan. Here are the key paragraphs:

Earlier this year, a senior Nato decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery.

Last month Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, told a conference in Sweden that if Iran got the bomb, "the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring."

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More News On Reports That Saudi Arabia Has A Secret Agreement With Pakistan For Nuclear Weapons

Saudi Arabia ‘can get nuclear weapons from Pakistan’ -- Gulf News
Saudi Arabia can get nuclear weapons from Pakistan at will -- Indian Express
Report: Saudi Arabia investing in nuclear deal with Pakistan -- UPI
Pakistan built nuclear weapons for Saudi Arabia: report -- Washington Times
Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons ‘on order,’ ready to deliver from Pakistan: report -- National Post
Saudi Arabia Has Reportedly Bought Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan -- The Blaze
Pakistan denies report of nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia as ‘baseless’ -- Al Arabiya
Pakistan rejects report about Saudi support for N-plan -- DAWN
Pakistan Spurns Report on Secret Nuclear Understanding with Saudi Arabia -- National Journal/Global Security Newswire