11th-hour try to block US F-16 sale to Pakistan - Yahoo! News

11th-hour try to block US F-16 sale to Pakistan - Yahoo! News

• Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ed Markey introduced a bill on Thursday to bar the sale unless
  President George W. Bush certifies that Pakistan has stopped building a big, newly-reported, plutonium-production reactor.
  
  Markey, co-chair of a bipartisan task force on curbing the spread of nuclear arms, acted just before the end of a 30-day window, during which Congress has statutory power to block the proposed arms sale.
  
  He said the F-16s were capable of delivering nuclear weapons "and if this arms sale goes through, we will only be putting additional fuel on the fire of an Indian-Pakistan nuclear arms race."