• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Asylum seekers story still doubted

WASHINGTON, DC. July 3 (APP) :The U.S.Department of State had no comments on a news item published in USA today and other newspapers that a "nuclear scientist" had defected from Pakistan and may provide some "useful information:" about Pakistan's nuclear programme and that Pakistan had planned a nuclear strike against India. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said, "We have no information beyond what is reported in the media that can confirm or deny his story". Another Clinton administration official said U.S. Intelligence agencies had no information or indications that Pakistan was preparing to attack India and that such military preparations would be spotted by U.S. spy satellites. He doubted whether the asylum seeker had been in a position that would give him access to the information he claims he knows.

.......................

So-called nuclear scientist, ex-employee of trading company

ISLAMABAD, July 3 (APP) :Iftikhar Chaudhry Khan who claimed he worked with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) as nuclear scientist was an employee of a private trading company, "Forte Pakistan", till late 1997, it was stated here Thursday. The Director of Forte Pakistan, Asad Shaikh told newsmen here, that the man worked for them as Assistant Accountant by the name of Iftikhar Sikandar Khan and also held a National Identity card by the same name. A man who remained in oblivion since his birth hit the press when a US newspaper published a story a couple of days back stating that a Pakistani "nuclear scientist" who fled to the United States had details about the country's nuclear programme. The PAEC on Thursday categorically denied that a person named Dr. Iftikhar Khan Chaudhry ever worked for them. The PAEC got hold of the copy of identity card which Iftikhar produced in the United States to claim he "worked as Assistant Research Officer" in the organization.

Pakistan never planned pre-emptive strike against India: Gohar

ISLAMABAD, July 3 (APP) :Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan Thursday categorically denied that Pakistan had any plans for a pre-emptive strike against India. He accused the man who (claims to be a defector Pakistani scientist) impostorous set up by an unnamed Intelligence Agency. Talking to BBC television here Thursday, he said, "there is nor has been no such person recently, as he maintains in April or so this year, or even last year or the year before, of this name with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). He said, "there was and has never been any plan of Pakistan for a pre-emptive strike or nuclear strike against India. We certainly have been saying that if India attacks Pakistan, we would retaliate." Moreover, the Foreign Minister said, "the identity card that he (Iftikhar Chaudhry) has produced before the Americans is bogus, adding, it's a forgery. So the whole thing is a cheap and amateurish, planned by an Intelligence Agency to put this person forward, he maintained."
 

.........................
 

BJP wants to make India a nuclear power in short time : Advani

ISLAMABAD, July 3 (APP) :Indian Home Minister L.K.Advani on Thursday claimed that ruling BJP Government wanted to make India a nuclear power in a short span of time. Speaking at the inauguration of domestic terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi he said, this reflected the Government's political will to exercise the nuclear option, Door Darshan television reported. Advani said making India a nuclear power was a major point on party's agenda.

KASHMIR UPDATE India to launch new military action plan to combat freedom fighters in held Kashmir

MIRPUR (AJK), July 3 (APP) : A new military action plan is being launched soon in occupied Kashmir by India in order to combat increasing activities of the Kashmiri freedom fighters, says a report reaching here Thursday from across the Line of Control. This was stated by the Indian Home Secretary, who told New Delhi Thursday that an action plan is in offing. Under the plan more fresh military and para-military troops might be despatched to occupied Kashmir, he said. Expressing concern over the mounting activities of Kashmiri freedom fighters, the Indian Union Home Secretary said there was no option for India other than exercising every possible force to crush, what he called, the secessionist and anti India elements in Kashmir. The law enforcing agencies including occupation military and para-military troops would be thrusted with more powers, and equipped with latest weapons and other facilities of communications to overcome the anti-India and freedom forces in the strife-torn valley of Kashmir, the report said quoting the Union Home Secretary. Addressing two-day annual conference of Indian Border Security Force Wednesday V.P. Singh, the top Indian Government official, said the Central Government was well aware of the problems being confronted by the Border Security Force in occupied Kashmir. The conference,the report revealed, would prepare new strategy for imparting latest training to BSF soldiers besides discussing various quick measures to encounter freedom fighters.

APHC Chief urges world powers to exert pressure on India

MUZAFFARABAD,(AJK) July 2 (APP): Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Syed Ali Gilani has said that Indian stubborn and rigid policy on Kashmir depicts that India is pushing the region towards a terrible unclear war. Addressing a press conference at the APHC headquarters, Thursday Gilani urged the major world powers to intervene and save the area from the scourge of destruction at the hands of New Delhi, says a message received here from Srinagar. APHC Chief said, at a time when India refused entry of UN Secretary Generals special envoy to New Delhi and also rejected the statements of American and Chinese Presidents regarding the maintenance of peace in the region, the world powers' intervention has become inevitable to play their mandatory role for the resolution of this long-standing issue. Commenting on the Loulab disaster, he said Loulab area was continuously under Indian forces repression since 1990. He said the area has been turned into military camps. He termed the June 25 incidents a planned action against the innocent people. Gilani described that Indian forces fired mortar shells at night, sprinkled patrol and kerosene oil on the houses, and burnt them to ashes, even cattles were not spared. He said women were molested and disgraced.