Injustices like this really create the frustration and deprivation in countries like Pakistan. Both India and Pakistan are declared and explicit nuclear power, but the world lobby always give undue advantages to India and always ignore Pakistan.
Australia has also followed that footstep and regrettably preferred India for its Uranium.
Labour Party yesterday voted to overturn [...]
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According to a western diplomat, the former dictator and the then President General Pervez Musharraf, during one of his meetings with US officials, had deemed it proper to convey it to the Americans what Pakistan possessed and how the country’s nuclear scientists had secured the defence of [...]
Americans know that computer modelling cannot replace actual testing for ensuring upkeep of existing nuke stocks nor for making more robust nukes which may have to destroy deep cave nuclear resistant bunkers. The nukes are for deterrence and the only assurance that they will work is to test them so that the enemies know.
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Eighth Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was an interesting event. Distinct feature of this conference was a year long concerted preparatory campaign lead by President Obama. Significant events of this marathon drive were: articulation of Prague Agenda in April 2009, passage of unanimous UNSC Resolution 1887 on Prague Agenda, in September 2009, signing of [...]
The Non-Proliferation Treaty’s (NPT) Review Conference has once again brought to the fore the differing perspectives on the Treaty, its Articles dealing with non-proliferation as well as nuclear disarmament, and the duality of approach adopted by states like the US on the overall issue of proliferation and disarmament. This time around no one has exposed [...]
Though it remains a comparatively weaker voice of mainly dispossessed nations, substance wise Tehran Conference on Disarmament and non-proliferations over shadowed its cousin hosted in Washington with greater fanfare. Joint statement of Tehran Conference exhibited a holistic approach, reflective of sincerity of purpose; it focused on core issues as well as handled the affiliated matters [...]
During the ‘Tehran Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation’, Iran did a splendid job by citing the Supreme Leader’s edict that use of WMD’s, including nuclear weapons, is forbidden by Islam. In the course of conference, references were also cited from the Old Testament to prove that nuclear weapons were not acceptable in the major religions. [...]
Well wishers of a genuine nuclear disarmament regime are enthused about the ‘International Disarmament Conference’ being hosted by Islamic Republic of Iran. As a peaceful nation, Iran was first to float the idea of making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone in the mid seventies. During the UN General Assembly meetings of 2005, 2007, [...]
The recently concluded Nuclear Security Summit has had the world attention riveted at Washington where 47 nations, represented by top echelon of leadership, gathered to craft an agreement that would keep the nuclear technology safe from the reach of terrorists. This was the largest assembly of world leaders hosted by an American President since the [...]
Think for a moment about which countries cause the most global consternation. Afghanistan. Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. Pakistan. Perhaps rising China. But India? Surely not. In the popular imagination, the world’s largest democracy evokes Gandhi, Bollywood, and chicken tikka. In reality, however, it’s India that often gives global governance the biggest headache.
Of course, India gets [...]
