Might U.S. 'Secure' Pakistan's Nukes? Seymour Hersh Says Yes; Countries Say No: PHOTO
Protecting them is critical. ( Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images ) By Mark Memmott Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's latest piece for The New Yorker has this page-one-worthy conclusion: Current and former officials said in interviews in Washington and Pakistan that (the Obama) Administration has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani Military. These would allow specially trained American units to provide added security for the Pakistani (nuclear) arsenal in case...

Pakistan rejects nuclear weapons article
Islamabad, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Foreign Ministry dismissed as "totally baseless" a report in The New Yorker about the United States offering to protect its Nuclear Weapons. Calling the article "utterly misleading and totally baseless," the ministry said it was "nothing more than a concoction to tarnish the image of Pakistan and create misgivings among its people," CNN reported Monday. The New Yorker magazine article by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour...

America's Secret Pakistan Nuke Deal
The United States government is negotiating with Pakistan's Military, attempting to allow the U.S. to help secure Pakistan's nuclear bombs in the case of a national crisis, Seymour Hersh reports in this week's New Yorker. Pakistan has 80 to 100 warheads, and those in Washington and around the world are increasingly worried that the chaos of recent weeks—a takeover of The Army's main headquarters; the Assassination of a general—might put them in danger. Also adding to American anxiety...

Pakistan doth protest nuclear weapons security issues too much: PHOTO
Whenever you see someone questioning the veracity of a report by Seymour Hersh, run in the opposite direction of the argument they’re making. The US didn’t Torture Iraqi prisoners? Abu Ghraib. The US didn’t have a terrorist Assassination program? Subsequent reports indicated otherwise. And this week, in the ‘Annals of National Security,’ we have Hersh’s report that the US and Pakistan are working together on ensuring the latter’s command and control...

Pakistan qualify for 2010 Hockey World Cup in India
Veteran penalty-corner specialist Sohail Abbas scored twice as Pakistan thrashed Japan 3-1 in the finals of a Qualifying tourney to book a berth in next year’s Hockey World Cup in India. Pakistan joined Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, South Africa and Spain in clinching a spot in the mega-event. Two more spots will go to the winner of the second qualifying event, currently underway in Invercargill, New Zealand. The third qualifying event will start next week in...

Pakistan models defy Taliban with 1st fashion week - Yahoo! News
KARACHI, Pakistan – Some women strode the Catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts. As surging militant violence grabs headlines around the world, Pakistan 's top designers and models are taking part in the country's first-ever Fashion Week . While the mix of couture and ready-to-wear Fashions would not...

Pakistan Designers, Models Defy Taliban With First Fashion Week
Amid headlines about violence and militants, Pakistan style circuit seeks to push new image with Fashion Week. AP Nov. 7: A model displays a creation by Pakistani designer Faiza Samee during the Pakistan Fashion Week in Karachi, Pakistan. Some women strode the Catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders

Nuclear arsenal secure, Pakistan says
Pakistani nuclear facilities are well protected and the country does not need foreign help to guard them, a Pakistani Military spokesman says. Talking on a local TV channel on Monday, Athar Abbas asserted that Pakistan knows how to protect its nuclear arsenal and nuclear facilities. He went on to say that the US government has itself dismissed an article by Seymour M. Hersh, published in The New Yorker , that suggests otherwise, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday. “The actual purpose...

New power for Pakistan
KASUR, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan inaugurated a 200 MW power station in Punjab province that utilizes a flexible fuel source to overcome regional shortfalls, executives said. Finnish energy and power company Wartsila led the engineering, procurement and project management of the Nishat Power Ltd. power plant in Kasur in Punjab province. The company said fuel flexibility of its engines offers an ideal solution for this location. Technology at the power plant uses local fuel resources...

Pakistan hara-kiri lets Kiwis win Cool and Cool Cup
Pakistan batsmen gave a perfect example of how to lose an easy match in the third and final ODI at Abu Dhabi. New Zealand too did the same, almost losing the match towards the end but just managed to scrape through with a 7-run win. Set to chase only 212 on a perfect batting strip, Pakistan from a solid 47 for no loss slipped to 86 for 8 in the 24th over and after 10 overs of scratching around from Umar Gul, it became 101 for 9

Pakistan suicide bomb kills anti-Taliban mayor, 11 others
Peshawar, Pakistan -- A Suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said. In the heavily guarded capital, police shot and killed another Suicide bomber before he was able to detonate his explosives at a checkpoint, an officer said. The Suicide bomber hit in the town of Adazi as shoppers thronged a market where goats...

New Zealand bats against Pakistan in the third ODI: PHOTO
Abu Dhabi: New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and opted to bat in the third and final one-day international against Pakistan at the Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Monday.   Gul got Redmond caught out for 21 to become the fifth-quickest Pakistani bowler to take 100 wickets.    The three-match series is tied at 1-1 after Pakistan won the first match by 138 runs on Tuesday before New Zealand came back by winning the second by 64 runs on Friday.   New Zealand remained...

Is Pakistan film industry on the verge of collapse
Islamabad, Nov 9 : Lollywood, Lahore-based Pakistan film industry, which at one point of time had a distinct identity of its own, is now facing a dearth of producers and directors who could make films to pull the audiences to the theatres.

Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan's Peshawar city, 5 others wounded
Peshawar, Pakistan — A Suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. The attack was the latest in a string of strikes that has killed more than 300 people over the past six weeks. The bloodshed appears aimed at distracting the government from its offensive against the Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal region. Five other people were wounded in the blast at an...

Second Bombing in Two Days Hits Pakistan's Peshawar
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A suspected Suicide bomber struck apolice post in Pakistan 's northwestern Peshawar city , killing atleast four people in the second attack there in two days. Three people were wounded in the bombing, police officerSaheb Zada said in a phone interview from the city, the capitalof North-West Frontier Province. The bomber detonated theexplosives on the city's ring road, Agence France-Pressereported. Thirteen people died yesterday in Peshawar as asuicide bomber attacked a...

Unfazed Hersh backs his report over Pak, US agreement on nuke details
Washington, Nov.10 - ANI: Famous US investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, whose report in a foreign magazine regarding Pakistan sharing its Nuclear programme details with America has created a huge furore, has backed his report, saying the Obama Administration wants Islamabad to let Washington help secure its Nuclear Weapons in a crisis. During an interview with CNN, Hersh rejected all accusations being levelled against him and said that the highly sensitive understandings now being sought by...

Bomber kills three in Pakistan
Related   » A Suicide bomber in a rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan today killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said. Islamist militants have unleashed a campaign of attacks in Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for a major offensive by security forces on their main bastion of South Waziristan on the Afghan border. "It was a Suicide attack. The bomber was in a rickshaw and detonated his explosives when the...

Pakistan rejects report its nukes not secured
Pakistan angrily defended the security of its nuclear arsenal Sunday after a U.S. magazine reported that the Obama Administration wants Pakistan to let Washington help secure its weapons in a crisis.

Report: Iran offers uranium for medical reactor fuel
DOHA, Qatar – A state-owned Iranian television station quoted unnamed diplomats Sunday as saying Iran, in a possible compromise to a United Nations-backed proposal, is willing to send 800 kilograms, or 1,764 pounds, of its Enriched Uranium abroad to be exchanged for fuel for a medical reactor. The original proposal, backed by the Obama Administration, had called for Iran to send abroad 1,200 kilograms, or 70 percent of its nuclear material supply, by year's end, temporarily lowering Iran's...

Saudi Arabia announces US $380m loan for Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan news : Saudi Arabia has announced to give US $380 million loan to Pakistan Monday. According to an official statement, the agreement

Report on N-assets mischievous and absurd: Gen Majid: PHOTO
Islamabad: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Tariq Majid has dismissed as -absurd and plain mischievous' a report by American journalist Seymour Hersh published in The New Yorker about alleged vulnerability of Pakistan's nuclear assets and facilities. He said Pakistan did not need any Foreign help to guard its nuclear facilities because they were already well protected. On Sunday, Foreign Office rejected the report and said it amounted to -nothing more than a concoction to...

Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Northwestern Pakistan
Pakistani police say a Suicide bomber in a rickshaw has killed three people in Peshawar, a day after another Suicide bomber killed 13 people in a crowded market outside the northwestern city.

The Associated Press: Police: Suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan
Peshawar, Pakistan — A Suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. The attack was the latest in a string of strikes that have killed more than 300 people over the past six weeks. The bloodshed appears aimed at distracting the government from its offensive against the Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal region. Five other people were wounded in the blast...

Rise of Terrorism in Pakistan, Afghan a Worry: Manmohan Singh
India: Rise of Terrorism in Pakistan, Afghan a Worry: Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says rising incidents of Terrorism in Pakistan and

Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Northwestern Pakistan
Pakistani police say a Suicide bomber in a rickshaw has killed three people in Peshawar, a day after another Suicide bomber killed 13 people in a crowded market outside the northwestern city. Police say the Suicide bomber detonated his explosives Monday at a checkpoint on a frequently traveled road that runs around Peshawar. Officials say a constable was among the dead. The blast wounded five other people.