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"Enemy within": Ex-CIA officer says US tipped off Pakistani general before
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks 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 : 6 months, 2 weeks 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 : 6 months, 2 weeks 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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"Shame that Indira didn't approve it": Ex-CIA officer Barlow on Israel-Ind
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks 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 : 6 months, 2 weeks 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 : 6 months, 2 weeks 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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'British citizens should be cautious about travelling to war-stricken coun
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): British citizens should be cautious about travelling to war-stricken countries like Syria where there is no ability to provide consular assistance to the citizens, a UK diplomat said on Tuesday.
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See something, say something: Call for renewed action against human traffi
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): "See something, say something" was the call for the day as students, diplomats, members of the civil society and police officials got together to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2019 here on Tuesday.
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