Rawalpindi—Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
Committee (CJCSC), General Tariq Majid has
rejected the article published in ‘The New
Yorker’ about Pakistan’s nuclear assets terming
it as absurd and plain mischievous. He
stated, “we have operationalised a very
effective nuclear security regime, which
incorporates very stringent custodial and access
controls.
Peshawar—Terrorism continue to hit the
provincial metropolis where within a short span
of twenty four hours another suicide blast
killed as many as three people including a cop
and left another five seriously injured. A
policeman and a minor are included among the
wounded persons. Some 16 persons including a
union council Nazim and head of the local peace
Lashker were killed and over forty others
injured in a suicide explosion in the outskirts
of Peshawar a day earlier.
Kabul—Chief of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbudin
Hekmatyar has disclosed that Osama Bin Laden is
alive, sources said Monday. In his video
message, he said that if the United States
announces to pull out its forces from
Afghanistan, it will be given save exit.
Hekmatyar was of view that owing to wrong
strategy of al Qaeda, Taliban government was
toppled.
New
Delhi—Israel has signed a $1.1 billion contract
to supply an upgraded tactical air defence
system to India, with delivery expected by 2017,
an Israeli official said on Monday. The sale of
the Barak-8 systems came as India’s army chief,
General Deepak Kapoor, held high-level talks in
Israel, India’s biggest defence supplier.
Berlin—World leaders past
and present gathered in the German capital on
Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the
Berlin Wall’s fall, which led to German
reunification and hastened the demise of the
Soviet Union. Images of the historic night of
November 9, 1989, when East Berliners trapped
behind the 3.6 meter (12 feet) high concrete
barrier rushed checkpoints to force it open,
dominated German television and newspaper
coverage for the past week.
Islamabad—Saudi Arabia would give $380
million as loan to Pakistan and an agreement
between the two countries would be inked today
(Tuesday). According to sources of Economic
Affairs Division, the loan would be provided by
Saudi Development Fund.
