Washington: Estimated to have more nuclear weapons than India, Pakistan is rapidly developing and expanding its atomic arsenal, spending about $ 2.5 billion a year to develop such weapons, a report has said. "Pakistan has been rapidly developing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, increasing its capacity to produce plutonium, and testing and deploying a diverse array of nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles," said the report 'Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Modernisation...
09:15 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Islamabad: The new Special Response Force created to protect Pakistan's nuclear arsenal held a passing out parade on Monday, with a top official saying that "all available resources" had been put in place to effectively guard the strategic assets. The newly raised Special Response Force will be part of the security force of the Strategic Plans Division, which is responsible for maintaining the nuclear arsenal. The passing out parade at...
03:58 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. He spoke to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview for the global affairs show World View. Here's the transcript. SH: Welcome to the special interview here on Worldview. Now he was called Captain Outrageous once but now he's more of Captain Planet because when Ted Turner puts his ...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. He spoke to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview for the global affairs show World View. Here's the transcript. SH: Welcome to the special interview here on Worldview. Now he was called Captain Outrageous once but now he's more of Captain Planet because when Ted Turner puts his...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Ted Turner, the Founder of United Nations Foundation said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. ...
08:24 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Does the only country that ever used a nuclear bomb in war, have any right to preach non proliferation to the world? Isn't that a ...
08:37 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Iranian Ambassador to India said on Tuesday that although Tehran was "not unhappy" with New Delhi's stand on the country, it would urge India to "pay attention to the realities that are being shaped". Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, the diplomat said that India and Iran had worked out an agreement for the payment of oil. "A mechanism has been worked out between India and Iran...
12:57 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Vienna: A senior UN nuclear agency team will visit Tehran on January 28 with Iran saying it is ready after years of refusal to discuss allegations that it was involved in secret nuclear weapons work, diplomats said Thursday. Diplomats have previously said that International Atomic Energy Agency officials were discussing such a trip with their Iranian counterparts. But before the diplomats' comments on Thursday, no date - or indication that...
03:37 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Melbourne: Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on Monday strongly criticised Julia Gillard for amending the long-standing Labor policy to sell uranium to India calling it a "shameful abject submission to US pressure." In an opinion piece published in 'The Age', Fraser, who led the country during 1975-83 as a Prime Minister, said "Canberra's abject submission to US pressure is shameful." He said Gillard has been "dead wrong" in doing...
08:52 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Tehran: The Iranian army is conducting a four-day training exercise to test its defences, state TV reported on Saturday, amid rising international tensions over Iran's nuclear programme. Press TV said the war games started on Friday and were taking place over 800,000 square km in the east of the country. "The initial stage of the drills will assess the units' performance in setting up primary and secondary command centres and...
12:11 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Vienna: The UN nuclear watchdog showed letters and satellite images on Friday as part of evidence pointing to military dimensions to Iran's atomic activities, diplomats said, but Tehran's envoy dismissed it as "lousy" intelligence work. Herman Nackaerts, head of nuclear inspections worldwide at the International Atomic Energy Agency, made an hour-long technical presentation of the IAEA's latest report on Iran's nuclear programme at a closer-door meeting for member states. The...
02:44 AM, Nov 12, 2011
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday expressed deep concern over the possible military-dimension to Iran's nuclear programme, and called for a diplomatic solution to resolve the issue. The secretary-general has expressed serious concern after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday accused Iran of conducting activities aimed at developing nuclear weapons, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. "The secretary-general reiterates his belief that a negotiated rather than a...
05:28 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Tehran: Iran won't retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program but the world is being misled by claims that it seeks atomic weapons, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in his first reaction since a UN watchdog report that Tehran is on the brink of developing a warhead. Ahmadinejad strongly chided the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, saying it is discrediting itself by siding with "absurd" US accusations. "This...
03:32 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Washington: Pakistan has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile and it could achieve 150-200 warheads in a decade despite the political instability in the country, two top American atomic experts have said. Pakistan is in the process of building two new plutonium production reactors and a new reprocessing facility to fabricate more nuclear weapons fuel, wrote nuclear experts Hans M Kristensen and Robert S Norris in the latest issue of Bulletin...
10:46 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Washington: US on Friday expressed apprehension that the nuclear weapons and technology of Pakistan might fall into the hands of terrorists and thus stressed on having the lines of communications open with Islamabad. "It's a country with an awful lot of terrorists on that border," Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a joint Pentagon news conference with the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates....
08:41 AM, Jun 17, 2011
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