Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, April 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan termed his detention as “irrational” in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, and said he hoped the new government would free him soon. Khan was put under house arrest by President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad after an investigation was launched in late […]

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Source: Daily Times
NEW DELHI: India successfully tested a short-range version of its most powerful nuclear-capable missile on Sunday as neighbouring nuclear rival celebrated 68th Pakistan Day.
The Agni-I missile, which can travel up to 700 kilometres, was test fired over the Bay of Bengal from Wheeler’s Island, off India’s east coast, at 10.15am on Sunday, the […]

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Source: Reuters
KARACHI (Reuters) - India’s successful test-firing of a nuclear-capable, submarine-launched missile will trigger a new arms race in the region, Pakistan’s navy chief said on Wednesday.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their partition and independence in 1947, and nearly went to war a fourth time in 2002, but relations have improved […]

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Source: The Hindu
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf reiterated on Friday that his country was capable of thwarting all threats to its sovereignty and nuclear capability, even as the Pakistan Army Strategic Force Command (ASFC) conducted a training launch of an intermediate ballistic missile.
The military said the launch of the nuclear-capable Ghauri, also known as Hatf […]

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Source: Russian News and Information Agency (RIA) Novosti
By Pyotr Goncharov
The world panics whenever Pakistan conducts a test of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
A Muslim state with nuclear weapons and extremists is also testing missiles? But this criticism is hardly justified. What should Pakistan do if it has nuclear warheads? It couldn’t possibly carry them […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
President Pervez Musharraf Friday formally assumed control of Pakistan’s National Command Authority (NCA), responsible for the security of the country’s nuclear arsenal, amid media reports of US concerns about its vulnerability to terrorist subversion.
The NCA was established in Feb 2002 but its functions and command were only legally defined Thursday through a presidential […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s military vowed a strong response to any international attempt to seize its atomic arsenal as the army successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile on Tuesday.
The security of Pakistan’s estimated 50 nuclear warheads has been under global scrutiny since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency on November 3 citing […]

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