Malik Muhammad Ashraf
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), comprising 11 articles, has three components or pillars: Non-proliferation, Disarmament and the right of the non-nuclear states to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Continue reading
Asim Ali
At the April 2012 annual session of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, held in New York, Pakistan again contended that one of the impeding factors behind global disarmament and non-proliferation efforts was the “pursuit of selectivity, discrimination and double standards by major powers in the area of non-proliferation, for commercial and strategic considerations.”
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By Yuriko Koike
At 7.39am on April 13, North Korea fired a missile (which it called a satellite launch) in the face of opposition from almost the entire international community. In a perverse way, the world got its way, because the vehicle exploded a minute after takeoff, its debris falling harmlessly into the sea.
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Shamshad Ahmad
At the Second Nuclear Summit in Seoul last month, as well as at the First Nuclear Summit in Washington in April 2010, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made a strong case for non-discriminatory access to nuclear technology for peaceful uses, including nuclear power-generation, to meet our growing energy and development needs.
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By Richard Norton-Taylor
GLOBAL spending on weapons now totals more than $1.7tn and Russia has overtaken Britain and France to take third place in the world league table.
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Helmut Schmidt & Sam Nunn
The two of us have joined a number of our colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic in discussing a threatening development: the accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material. We now face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons and materials ever invented could fall in to dangerous hands.
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Asif Jehangir Raja
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The southern tip of India witnessed severe anti government protests during the last few weeks by hundreds of thousands of people demanding the removal of nuclear power plant in state of Tamil Nadu. Kudankulam Atomic Power Project is a under construction nuclear power station in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Continue reading
Asif Ezdi
Gilani’s meeting with Obama was the highlight of the prime minister’s visit to Seoul last week to attend the Second Nuclear Security Summit. The two leaders had had their last and only meeting at the First Nuclear Security Summit hosted by the US president in Washington in April 2010. Continue reading
Gwynne Dyer
WE have just had the second Nuclear Security Summit, in Seoul. It got surprisingly little attention from the international media although 53 countries attended it. For the media, nuclear weapons are yesterday’s issue because nobody expects a nuclear war. But a nuclear weapon in terrorist hands is the defining nightmare of the post-9/11 decade, and that’s what the summit was actually about.
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Tariq Osman Hyder
Pakistan has been criticised for its stand on the fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT) in the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva. It’s time to separate facts from fiction by examining what is being said.
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