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"Go get me my phone": Hegseth recalls Trump's "FAFO" moment after US strik
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recalled how President Donald Trump authorised and announced strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, calling it the moment "when the world listens 'FAFO.'" The June operation targeted Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, ending the 12-day Iran-Israel war and crippling Ir
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"Enemy within": Ex-CIA officer says US tipped off Pakistani general before
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Former CIA officer Richard Barlow has revealed that senior officials in the US State Department secretly tipped off the Pakistani government about an undercover American operation to arrest a retired Pakistani general involved in nuclear smuggling during the 1980s.
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"We knew Pakistan's F-16s could carry nukes, without any doubt": Former CI
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"We knew all about the Pakistani nuclear weapons design, and we knew all about the F-16s, as you could imagine. And we knew that the F-16s were capable of delivering the Pakistani nuclear weapons as they existed at that time, without any doubt," he said.
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My life was destroyed for exposing Pakistan's nuclear secrets: Ex-CIA offi
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"So a nine-month-long investigation, invading our marriage all over Washington, making everybody think that I was some kind of a spy or had done some horrible security thing. It was all found to be completely fabricated. And I was called in and given my top secret clearance back, but they re
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Clandestine nuclear activities consistent with Pak's history: MEA on Islam
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"Clandestine and illegal nuclear activities are in keeping with Pakistan's history, that is centred around decades of smuggling, export control violations, secret partnerships, AQ Khan network and further proliferation," the MEA Spokesperson said.
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"Shame that Indira didn't approve it": Ex-CIA officer Barlow on Israel-Ind
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
According to reports and declassified accounts, Israel and India allegedly planned a preemptive airstrike on Pakistan's Kahuta uranium enrichment plant -- the core of its nuclear programme -- to prevent Islamabad from developing and proliferating nuclear weapons, particularly to Iran, whi
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US ignored Pakistan's nuclear weapons development despite repeated warning
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Barlow explained that two key US laws, the Solarz Amendment and the Pressler Amendment, were designed to restrict aid to nations engaged in nuclear weapons development.
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Pakistan's nuclear ambitions were aimed at countering India, but turned in
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
In an interview with ANI, Barlow, a former CIA member who was part of the intelligence agency as a counterproliferation officer during Pakistan's clandestine nuclear activities in the 1980s, detailed how Khan's network provided critical gas centrifuge technology and possibly nuclear weapo
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N Korea vows response on US sanctions; Russian military delegation visits
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The US Treasury Department announced earlier this week that it had imposed sanctions on eight North Korean individuals and two entities for their role in laundering funds stolen through illicit cyber activities. The department said that the individuals were "state-sponsored hackers," whose i
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Russia has begun developing new nuclear-powered cruise missiles: Putin
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Addressing an award ceremony for weapons developers in the Kremlin, Putin was cited by TASS as saying that the speed of the next generation of nuclear-powered cruise missiles will be "more than three times the speed of sound, and in the future, they will even become hypersonic."
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Alleged nuclear tunnels in Sindh mountains prompt calls for international
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
In a formal letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the groups claimed that multiple underground tunnels and chamber systems had
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US nuclear aircraft carrier arrives at S Korea's Busan port city
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
South Korea's Navy said it "plans to further strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the Navies of the two countries, as well as enhance defence capabilities on the occasion of the arrival of the Fifth Aircraft Carrier Group."
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