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February 2000 - Pakistan Special Weapons News

  • PAKISTAN/INDIA/KASHMIR Voice of America 27 February 2000 -- There are conflicting reports from the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir about an attack on an Indian military post that left several Indian soldiers dead.
  • PAKISTAN/INDIA/KASHMIR Voice of America 26 February 2000 -- Militant Islamic groups are vowing to avenge the killings of 14 people in the region of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan.
  • PAKISTAN / INDIA KASHMIR Voice of America 25 February 2000 -- Pakistan has accused (Friday) Indian army commandos of crossing into the Pakistani Kashmir and massacring 15 civilians in what it calls a "provocative act of state of terrorism."
  • NATIONAL INTEREST & NUCLEAR POLICY Statement by Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar at Lahore, 25 February 2000 -- Acquisition of nuclear capability by Pakistan has proved a positive factor for peace. Scholarly studies perceive nuclear deterrence at work in 1986 when India massed a quarter million troops close to our border on the pretext of a military exercise. The nuclear capability prevented war in 1990 and again in 1999.
  • PAK - INDIA EXPULSIONS Voice of America 20 February 2000 -- Pakistan has ordered the expulsion of three Indian diplomats for alleged spying. The expulsion order follows India's expulsion of three Pakistani diplomats on Friday.
  • PAKISTAN / CLINTON Voice of America 17 February 2000 -- An informal survey carried out in Pakistan indicates a majority of Pakistani's would welcome a visit by President Clinton during his trip to South Asia next month.
  • CLINTON-SOUTH ASIA Voice of America 16 February 2000 -- President Clinton says he has not ruled out a visit to Pakistan during the South Asian trip he makes late next month, and says he is willing -- if asked by the parties -- to try to mediate the Kashmir dispute.
  • Clinton at Press Conference Says Pakistan Not Yet Ruled Out on Upcoming Trip By Wendy S. Ross and Stephanie L. Cupp USIA 16 February 2000 -- President Clinton has not foreclosed visiting Pakistan on his upcoming trip to India and Bangladesh, planned for the week of March 20. "I haven't decided whether I'm going to Pakistan or not," he told reporters at his first formal press conference of 2000.
  • PAKISTAN / KASHMIR SEPARATISTS Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- For the past ten years Muzafarabad, a small city in northern Pakistan has served as the nerve center for one of the world's most protracted and violent insurgencies.
  • PAKISTAN / KASHMIR REFUGEES Voice of America 14 February 2000 -- Ten years ago, a violent separatist insurgency began in India's Jammu and Kashmir State. Now -- ten years later after tens of thousands have been killed -- the insurgency has largely failed, even though separatist guerrillas continue to inflict casualties on Indian forces in Kashmir.
  • PAKISTAN / LINE OF CONTROL Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- In recent weeks there has been a noticeable rise in tensions along the so-called "line of control," which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
  • Chief Executive rules out possibility of war between India, Pakistan Associated Press of Pakistan 08 February 2000 -- Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has ruled out the possibility of war between India and Pakistan. Musharraf replied that at the moment it is a mere rhetoric and the rhetoric increases tension.
  • PAK MISSILE TEST Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Pakistan says it has successfully test-fired a new short-range ballistic missile capable of hitting targets up to a distance of 100-kilometers.
  • TEST Pakistan Broadcasting 07 February 2000 -- English Pakistan successfully conducted a test of the Hatf-One short range surface-to-surface ballistic missile today.
  • RAW cannot carry out terrorism without internal help, says Jabbar Associated Press of Pakistan 07 February 2000 -- Advisor to Chief Executive on National Affairs, Information and Media Development, Javed Jabbar has said that besides foreign hand, some domestic elements were also involved in acts of terrorism in various parts of the country.
  • US acknowledges Pakistan as defacto nuclear state like India: Sattar Associated Press of Pakistan 07 February 2000 -- Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar on Feb. 6 said Pakistan is a declared nuclear weapon state and signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will not alter its status.
  • National Command Authority established Associated Press of Pakistan 03 February 2000 -- National Security Council on Feb. 2 approved the establishment of National Command Authority (NCA). The meeting was chaired by the Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf. NCA will be responsible for policy formulation, and will exercise employment and development control over all strategic nuclear forces and strategic organizations.
  • PAKISTAN - NUCLEAR Voice of America 03 February 2000 -- A brief statement issued in Islamabad says a National Command Authority has been established which will control all policies concerning nuclear weapons.
  • PAK - SHARIF TRIAL - PILOT Voice of America 03 February 2000 -- There was dramatic testimony Thursday in the criminal trial of Pakistan's ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the city of Karachi. A pilot at the center of the case says he feared his plane would crash after it was denied permission to land last October 12th.
  • ANTI-TERRORISM COURT IN KARACHI HAS RECORDED STATEMENTS OF THREE MORE PROSECUTION WITNESSES IN THE PLANE HIJACKING CONSPIRACY CASE. Pakistan TV 02 February 2000 -- THE KARACHI AIR FIELD WAS CLOSED AT ABOUT 6.28 PM ON THE DIRECTIVES OF WING COMMANDER AHMED FAROOQ THE SECRETARY TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY AND THREE FIRE ENGINES WERE PUT ON RUNWAY TO BLOCK THE SAME. LIGHTS OF THE RUNWAY WERE ALSO SWITCHED OFF.
  • CLINTON-SOUTH ASIA Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- The White House says President Clinton will make a long-delayed trip to South Asia the week of March 20th. He will stop in India and Bangladesh, but officials say no decision has been made yet on whether he will visit Pakistan.
  • PAKISTAN'S RESPONSE TO TERRORISTS Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- The U-S press is becoming more hostile to Pakistan, long a military ally of this country, over Pakistan's new attitude toward terrorists.



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