Pakistan would never allow foreign inspectors to monitor its nuclear facilities and has no intention of freezing its nuclear or missile programmes, President Pervez Musharraf said. Musharraf said Pakistan's investigation of the smuggling ring centred around scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan so far indicated that only designs for centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons-grade material had been leaked to Iran. And he emphatically denied reports Pakistan had traded nuclear technology for North Korean ballistic missile technology, saying Pakistan paid cash for North Korean surface-to-surface missiles in 2002. "Why should Pakistan be expected to allow anybody to inspect?" Musharraf told the London-based Financial Times in an interview published yesterday. "We are not hiding anything ... what is the need of any inspection," said Musharraf, who was head of the armed forces before seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999. Musharraf on February 4 pardoned Khan, considered a national hero in Pakistan for guiding the programme which built the country's nuclear bomb, after the scientist confessed to selling nuclear secrets. The scandal has raised doubts about the safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and has led to allegations that the Pakistani military was directly involved in proliferation. But the Pakistani leader again insisted that Khan, together with six other scientists and officials currently in custody, acted alone in selling nuclear technology without the government's or the military's knowledge. Musharraf said Pakistan would continue to develop its nuclear and missile programmes to create a deterrent, and would test a Shaheen II missile with a range of 2,000km in the next few weeks. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (Photo by Aziz Haidari/Reuters)