NATION : Bhutto Vows Nuclear-Free Pakistan

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan said today that her country does not have nuclear weapons, will not build them and will not “provoke a nuclear arms race” on the subcontinent it shares with rival India.

In an address to Congress, Bhutto also urged the United States to continue military and economic aid to Pakistan.

Applause repeatedly punctuated her speech and it was loudest and most prolonged when she said her nation does not intend to become a nuclear-weapons power and will work with the United States to “prevent the catastrophe of a nuclear arms race in south Asia.”