Source: Washington Times
Cooler heads must revisit the issue
OP-ED:
Let us assume, at least for the moment, that the crisis between Pakistan and India over the Mumbai terror attacks two weeks ago recedes and a resolution acceptable to both sides can be found that does no permanent damage to future relationships in South Asia. Beyond the necessity […]

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Source: DAWN
By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec 3: The White House said on Wednesday that it agreed with a bipartisan congressional commission’s report that Pakistan sat closest to the intersection of nuclear weapons and terrorism.
“I have no reason to disagree with it,” said White House Press Secretary Dana Perino when asked if the White House agreed with […]

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Source: Telegraph
Pakistan has made unprecedented moves towards resolving outstanding disputes with India.
President Asif Ali Zardari has risked incurring the wrath of Pakistan’s establishment by announcing his willingness to commit to a policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, and suggested a pact between the countries.
Senior officials from both countries have discussed co-operation in efforts to fight […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Dozens of Islamists marked the 10th anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear test on Wednesday by rallying for an end to the house arrest of the man considered the father of the country’s bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
The nuclear scientist was detained in 2004 after admitting to passing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan said that a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead anywhere in India is ready for wartime use after troops launched it on Monday during a field exercise.
Scientists and engineers had prepared the Hatf VI missile, also known as Shaheen II, for the exercise with a test-firing on Saturday.
Monday’s […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has an effective command and control structure for its nuclear weapons and they are fully safe and secure, the country’s new prime minister said on Thursday.
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed Muslim nation and is a staunch ally of the United States in its campaign against al Qaeda and […]

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Source: Mercury News
PALO ALTO, California—Four years after Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist confessed to leaking weapons technology to North Korea, the North Koreans have denied receiving any such help, an American researcher said.
The North Koreans dismissed the confessions from Pakistan, saying, “That’s your story,” researcher Siegfried Hecker said.
The North Koreans also told Hecker they had nothing […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Michael Heath
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan plans to buy Chinese-made equipment to detect suicide bombers as President Pervez Musharraf said al-Qaeda couldn’t seize control of the nuclear-armed nation.

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Source: New Statesman
The Foreign Policy Centre’s Alex Bigham considers how the world should react to a changing Pakistan
There are, broadly speaking, two schools of thought about what the international community should do next to help alleviate the chaos consuming Pakistan. One was emphasised by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian – that we should never seek […]

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Source: AFP
VIENNA (AFP) — The UN atomic watchdog has attempted to smooth over a spat with Pakistan over recent comments made by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei on the issue of nuclear safety.
A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency insisted Thursday that ElBaradei’s comments were intended to “call attention to the need to bolster nuclear […]

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Source: China View
SINGAPORE, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf warned that any unilateral intervention in his country by coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan would be treated as an invasion, according to an interview with Singapore’s English daily The Straits Times published Friday.
“Any entry by the United States or coalition forces into Pakistan’s tribal […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan rejected the UN nuclear chief’s criticism of its atomic weapons safety, saying its arsenal would not fall into the hands of extremists and chastising his “irresponsible” remarks.
Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told a weekly press briefing that Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), should “be careful […]

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Source: Asia Times
By Zia Mian
The United States recently admitted that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, it has been helping Pakistan secure its nuclear weapons and the materials used to make them. Pakistan has welcomed this assistance. A former Pakistani general who was involved in the nuclear weapons complex has said that “we […]

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