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WASHINGTON, Feb 28: A Pakistani firm has invented a new formula to make fertilisers that cannot be converted into bomb-making materials, diplomatic sources told Dawn.

The firm, Fatima Group, has succeeded in making non-lethal alternatives to ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient in the fertilisers it makes. Fertilisers with ammonium nitrate, however, can easily be converted into bomb-making ingredients.

“Such a long-term solution would be a true scientific breakthrough,” Lt-Gen Michael Barbero, the head of the Pentagon’s Joint Improved Explosive Device Defeat Organisation, said in a statement.

A US television network, CNN, reported on Thursday that the United States and Pakistan reached an agreement last week to make fertilisers with non-explosive materials.But diplomatic sources told Dawn that an agreement could only be reached after the new material is tested. The sources said that US experts would soon visit Pakistan for testing the new material with experts from the Fatima Group, Pakistan’s major fertiliser manufacturer.

Representatives of the group visited Washington last week and met senior officials from the Pentagon, the State Department and also some US lawmakers.

CNN reported that Gen Barbero met the group’s representatives while they were in Washington and urged them to take steps to control fertiliser inventories.

“The meeting itself was a step forward since the Pakistani government previously had stopped the US military from talking directly to the company,” CNN reported.

Pakistani firm makes IED-proof fertiliser | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
 
US forced and helped Pakistan in that. It's simply mixing another innert material with potasium Nitrate, which makes it difficult to extract explosive cotents from the mixture using the crude ways which terrorists use.
 
but they might already has enough material

does afghanistan has any fertiliser producing facilities?
 
Isn't Fatima group the same company with which Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar has family ties to?
 
Isn't Fatima group the same company with which Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar has family ties to?

I didn't get your point, anyway there are 2-3 relatives of AM in board of directors but Fatima Group is listed in stock exchange not a private company.

Isn't Fatima group the same company with which Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar has family ties to?

I didn't get your point, anyway there are 2-3 relatives of AM in board of directors but Fatima Group is listed in stock exchange not a private company.
 
There was alot of noise a year or so back when the name of Fatima group came up in the list of non-tax payers and bijli chors, and Ahmed Mukhtar was said to have had a big part in that.

The BoD has alot of Ahmed Mukhtars in there, so yeah, this is the one.
 
Crap. They just took all the fun out of fertilizers........ for IED-favoring terrorists.

But how does this affect those self-blowing walking tick-tocks ??
 
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