Pakistan, accused by some powers of blocking progress in the world's top disarmament forum, insisted on Wednesday that it wants an end to nuclear weaponry and is playing an active role to bring this about. But in a statement issued in Islamabad, it argued that "the legitimate security interests of all states" had to be protected in any move towards new talks in the long-stalled Conference on Disarmament, under UN auspices, in Geneva. Pakistan "subscribes to the goals of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation... and has always played an active and constructive role in the conference," the Pakistan Online News Service...