Nuclear-capable cruise missile fired by Pakistan
Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable cruise missile, sify news, Islamabad, Feb 10 (DPA) Pakistan Thursday successfully tested a nuclear-capable cruise missile with a range of up to 600 km, a military official said.The Hatf-VII missile, also called Babur after the 16th-century Muslim ruler who founded the Mughal Empire, was fired from an undisclosed location, said Major General Athar Abbas, a military spokesman……….. Continue reading
Pakistan has greatly accelerated its nuclear weapons program
“The Pakistanis have significantly accelerated production of uranium and plutonium for bombs and developed new weapons to deliver them,”
At 110, Pak N-stock shoots past India’s: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India by Ashish Kumar Sen in Washington DC , 1/2/2011, Pakistan has doubled the size of its nuclear stockpile over the past several years, edging past India and now has more than 100 deployed weapons, according to a Washington Post report. Continue reading
Nuclear Suppliers Group destabilising region by supporting India’s trade in nuclear weapons materials
Pakistan’s ambassador Zamir Akram sharply criticised reported moves to bring its neighbour into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and other bodies that allow trade in nuclear materials, including for weapons.
Pakistan warns against India nuclear support, Google hosted news, (AFP) – 26 Jan 2011, GENEVA — Pakistan warned on Tuesday that growing international support for rival India’s nuclear programme would force Islamabad to bolster its deterrence and destabilise the region. Continue reading
Pakistan criticises USA double standards on nuclear weapons
Dr Shireen M Mazari said that if Pakistan’s nuclear status is recognised, as done in case of India, we will be in a position to consider FMCT…….
Shireen said that India not only has a much larger stockpile of weapon grade nuclear material but has also entered into a nuclear co-operation agreement with US, which allows it to import nuclear fuel from US for energy purposes, enabling it to produce material potentially be used for military purposes.
Dual US standards on nuclear proliferation criticised, Business Redorder, Pakistan, RAJA AQEEL & ZULFIQAR AHMADISLAMABAD (January 23, 2011) : Former caretaker foreign minister Inamul Haq has termed Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) as an attempt to cap Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities but UN permanent five members are legitimately possessing nuclear weapons in the presence of Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Continue reading
New Year’s Day friendly nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India
Pakistan, India to exchange nuclear data English.news.cn 2010-12-31 ISLAMABAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and India will exchange lists of nuclear installations and facilities on Saturday in spite of tension over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that has disrupted the dialogue process between the two countries.The two countries exchange the list of nuclear sites on the first day of every new year under an agreement signed in 1988 and came into force in January 1991…….. The lists will be handed over to officers of the Pakistani and Indian high commissions in Islamabad and New Delhi. This will be the 20th consecutive list exchange between the two countries.Pakistan and India conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998. Both countries are de-facto nuclear-weapon powers…
Nuclear-capable missile tested by Pakistan
Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile, Telegraph, 22 Dec 10, Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said the successful missile test proved that the country’s defence capability is invincible and “should never be challenged”. The Pakistan military released a statement which said that the Ghauri Hatf 5 missile has a range of 800 miles, and has the capability to carry nuclear and conventional warheads. Mr Gilani made it clear that nuclear deterrence would form the basis of Pakistan’s security policy, assuring that the programme would be developed and its nuclear capabilities enhanced…… Video: Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile – Telegraph
Drastic climate change would result from ‘limited’ nuclear war between Pakistan and India
The implications of nuclear war between Pakistan and India…….They conclude that a nuclear exchange involving 50 nuclear weapons would, in addition to the immediate devastation, send millions of tonnes of soot into the stratosphere and cause global climate change unprecedented in human history.
Rolling the nuclear dice with Australian uranium The Punch, Jim Green 15 Dec 10, Secret US cables concerning nuclear politics in South Asia provide important context for debates over Australia’s uranium export industry.
US cables released by Wikileaks warn that a limited Indian invasion of Pakistan, in response to an incident such as the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, would be to “roll the nuclear dice’’ and risk triggering nuclear warfare. Continue reading
International Atomic Energy Agency to weak to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation
“The uranium-mining assistance appears to have assisted Pakistan in furthering its nuclear-weapons program,”..“What occurred was a lack of effective oversight.”…The IAEA’s failure to prevent the use of its aid for prohibited military purposes raises questions about its ability to police the nuclear material that it helps countries produce.
Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Program’s Aid From UN Shows Weakness of Watchdog, Bloomberg, By Jonathan Tirone – Dec 16, 2010 The United Nations agency tasked with curbing nuclear proliferation may have unwittingly helped Pakistan develop its atomic-weapons program because of weak internal oversight, according to documents and interviews with three former UN scientists. Continue reading
Pakistan hanging on to highly enriched uranium
WikiLeaks: Pakistan Delaying Uranium Removal – CBS News, 1 Dec 10, A stash of highly enriched uranium capable of providing enough material for multiple “dirty bombs” has been waiting in Pakistan for removal by an American team for more than three years but has been held up by the country’s government, according to leaked classified State Department documents.
U.S. failures to remove the material and the government’s struggles to work with the Pakistani government are detailed in secret government memos the self-styled whistleblower organization WikiLeaks made available to a number of news outlets, The New York Times reported on its website Tuesday.U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson wrote in a classified 2009 cable that the Pakistani government was dragging its feet in giving Americans access to remove the material left over from a decades-old reactor, the Times reported……….WikiLeaks: Pakistan Delaying Uranium Removal – World Watch – CBS News
Rumour of USA planning to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Credible? – New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan?s Nuclear Arsenal, strategy.com, 16 Oct 10, Quote -Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West?s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation?s nuclear weapons.
The News International, Pakistan?s largest English-language newspaper, published a report on October 13 based on excerpts from American journalist Bob Woodward?s recently released volume ?Obama?s Wars? which stated that during a trilateral summit between the presidents of the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan on May 6 of 2009 Pakistani head of state Asif Ali Zardari accused Washington of being behind Taliban attacks inside his country with the intent to use them so ?the US could invade and seize its nuclear weapons.? [1]- End Quote
Credible? – New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan?s Nuclear Arsenal
Pakistan wants USA to do a nuclear deal
A report in April by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs found Pakistan’s stockpiles faced “immense” threats of theft “from nuclear insiders with extremist sympathies, al Qaeda or Taliban outsider attacks, and a weak state.”
Pakistan to Push for Nuclear Deal in U.S. – WSJ.com, By TOM WRIGHT, 14 Oct 10, ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s renewed push to clinch a civilian nuclear deal with Washington threatens to further strain relations that are already tense over Islamabad’s refusal to attack Taliban havens on its soil. Continue reading
Increased nuclear program in Pakistan
Pakistan steps up nuclear construction, Google hosted news, By Shaun Tandon (AFP) – 6 Oct 10, WASHINGTON — Pakistan appears to have stepped up construction of a new atomic reactor that could help the country produce easier-to-deliver nuclear weapons, a US research institute said. Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is one of the most sensitive topics for the United States as it tries to improve relations with its frontline partner in the campaign against Islamic extremism.The Institute for Science and International Security, a private US group which is critical of nuclear weapons, said Tuesday it observed progress at Pakistan’s tightly guarded Khushab site which is key to plutonium production……….Pakistan, which experts estimate now has up to 100 nuclear weapons, has been adamant that its nuclear weapons are in safe hands and President Barack Obama has publicly concurred.
But the United States hinted at its frustration on Tuesday at the United Nations, where Pakistan has blocked a resumption of negotiations for an agenda in global nuclear disarmament talks. AFP: Pakistan steps up nuclear construction
Pakistan’s nuclear policy problems
Pakistan’s nuclear policy dilemmas – The Express Tribune, 4 Oct 10, On September 27, Pakistan became the new chair of the UN nuclear watchdog’s governing body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This comes a week after Pakistan expressed its resolve to block all talks proposing a treaty to ban production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva argues that India’s strategy of proliferation of nuclear technology poses an unfair advantage with bigger fissile material stockpiles and raises concerns about the “discriminatory” nuclear cooperation deals with the US. Pakistan has come to rely on its nuclear weapons and their dispersal to prevent Indian preemption…….the world perceives the selection of Pakistan as the chair of the IAEA as problematic. The most sinister concern, however, lies in the assertion of nuclear terrorism emerging out of Pakistan……… Pakistan’s nuclear policy dilemmas – The Express Tribune
Looming prospect of a failed nuclear state – Pakistan
And the specter of the world’s first failed nuclear state, coupled with the nightmare scenario of younger Islamist officers pushing the three stars aside and taking over in the name of Islam, was no longer idle cocktail chatter.
World’s first failed nuclear state?. “friday-lunch-club”:De Borchgrave:, September 8, 2010 “…Pakistan is reeling under the most devastating national catastrophe since independence 63 years ago. Continue reading
AQ Khan claims US,UK tried to bribe Pakistani scientists
US, UK tried to bribe Pak nuke scientists: AQ Khan The Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN, Sep 3, 2010,WASHINGTON: American and British intelligence agencies tried to bribe two Pakistani scientists “who refused all sorts of incentives” to betray the country’s nuclear program in the mid 1990s and reported the matter to higherups, the man credited with making Pakistan a nuclear power has claimed.
In a typically bombastic interview, AQ Khan, the recently freed but heavily monitored nuclear scientist, insists that Pakistan’s nuclear program is secure both from external infiltration (by western agencies) and internal penetration (by extremists). ……..US, UK tried to bribe Pak nuke scientists: AQ Khan – US – World – The Times of India
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