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History is key to making sense of the utility of nuclear weapons to Pakistan, and the state’s heavy reliance on them. A point that is often ignored is that India went nuclear even when there was no need for it. Zachary Keck rightly argues that India’s nuclear development was a mistake because it...

RECENTLY, the Federation of American Scientists reported that the Indian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile project is intensifying nuclear competition between India and China. The ICBM is widely seen as a symbol of power projection and hegemonic ambitions. According to Western analysts, the...

The current cycle of conflict in Northern Ireland began over 11 years ago. As a practicing politician in Northern Ireland throughout that period, I have taken a particular interest while traveling abroad in following the world media coverage of the problem. For the most part, this has been a...

KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan on Tuesday mobilised reinforcements for a counter-offensive to take back Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city in their biggest victory since being ousted from power in 2001. Afghan security forces have retreated to the...

Considering the type of efforts to develop a new helicopter from scratch — from both industry and government perspectives — the schedule is a “sporty” one, a “low- to medium-risk approach to acquisition,” Kretzschmar said Monday at a rotorcraft conference at the Defence and Security Equipment...

Nukes are safe, terrorists are not

India has been striving for the last seven years for admission into the world’s most exclusive cartel, the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG), but the prospect of its membership grows bleaker as time passes. The story of India’s elusive bid for entry into the NSG begins in 2008, when the infamous...

“Today is a big day in the history of Pakistan,” the premier said, while addressing the inauguration ceremony. “The nuclear power project is vital for national progress,” he added. The government in 2013 decided to go ahead with work on a 1,100-megawatt nuclear power plant in Karachi with...

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”— Rumi We know that we’re all different, have our own opinions and everyone is never going to agree on everything. Having said that, the bottom line is as it always has been. If you can’t say something nice, well, you know...

“Achche din’(Happy Days) are coming”, was the promise on which Narendra Modi rose to become Prime Minister of India from the 2014 General Election. Least realising the Achilles’ heel of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the Civil Nuclear Deal with the United States of America...

Nukes are safe, terrorists are not

Briefing the meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs held under the chair of Nuzhat Sadiq, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said Thursday that there has been significant reduction in terrorist activities since the launch of Operation Zarb e Azb, adding that the nuclear...

The missile has been described as the PAF's Hypersonic 'Carrier Killer Missile' The CM-400AKG is now part of the operational weapon set of the PAF's JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter. "This is a mature weapon that has been fully tested. It is not conceptual. It is in service," Air Commodore...

The Sunday Times of London had published a report which claimed that Saudi Arabia had “taken the ‘strategic decision’ to acquire ‘off-the-shelf’ atomic weapons from Pakistan,” citing unnamed American officials, in a bid to counter Iran after the recent nuclear deal it reached with the West. A...

Its assumption of the Indian and Western, but if you see closely i.e India's most of the nuclear power plants are built in Maoist Dominance Area, so what happens if they attack on

India have a long history of Nuclear accidents, NTI - a Washington-based non-profit body which aims to strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons - makes the assessment of the security mechanisms in countries...

NTI - a Washington-based non-profit body which aims to strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons - makes the assessment of the security mechanisms in countries having at least one kg of enriched uranium and...

The issue of energy shortage is not going to go away in a short span of time because of the non-seriousness in construction of big dams. Currently, we are adopting various short term solutions but this is not the answer to the issue. The picture looks gloomier when the increase in demand over...

With a touch of irony, Canada has agreed to supply uranium to India for the next five years, burying the discord which had sprung between them. It was India’s diversion of nuclear technology provided to it for civilian energy program by Canada that led to the latter banning all nuclear trade...

NEW YORK - Pakistan has taken exception to a New York Times editorial published in the wake of the recent Iran nuclear deal that urges major powers to turn their attention to constraining Pakistan’s nuclear and strategic capabilities, saying India was first to explode an atomic weapon in South...