Mushahid’s claims on Pak nuke tests campaign had no basis: Gohar

October 4th, 2009 LAHORE - The United States had made several attempts to restrict the then Pakistan government from conducting nuclear tests in response to India's nuke blasts in May 1998, former US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Prof. Karl Inderfurth has said.

September 23rd, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - The government has rubbished the claim by a retired senior scientist that the nuclear tests India conducted 11 years ago were a failure and questioned the timing of his statement. "He is a perennial doubter.

September 10th, 2009 LAHORE - A former Pakistani spymaster has revealed that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif maintained a close relationship with Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and claimed that the chieftain had sponsored the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief's election campaign in 1988. Former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Khalid Khawaja said bin Laden not only funded Sharif's campaign, but also paid him huge money to ensure protection of Al Qaeda operatives inside Pakistan and to 'Islamise' the state and society.

September 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that he will soon return to Pakistan to be among the people of the country. Talking to a delegation in London led by Pakistan Muslim League (Q) leader Amir Muqam, Musharraf called for unity between two factions of the PML-Q.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - Road accident records in the UK show that computer engineers are the worst drivers on the road, while farmers are the best. Authorities at the Churchill Car Insurance say that computer engineers have made maximum claims for road crashes in the past three years.

September 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has officially expressed apprehensions over the possibility of about India planning new nuclear tests based on the unsubstantiated conjecture of a domestic scientist. Addressing a weekly briefing here, Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said there are reports that India is preparing to conduct new nuclear tests.

August 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was not in favour of conducting nuclear tests in 1998, but was 'outlawed' by his cabinet and forced to accept its decision regarding going ahead with the tests. In an interview with a private television channel, Khan claimed that some ministers of Sharif's cabinet also supported his views of not conducting the nuclear tests at that time.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - KFC has come under fire over "misleading" claims that fresh chicken is delivered to each of its branch on a daily basis. The fast food chain broadcast an advertisement, saying: "KFC.

July 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Thursday's suicide attack on a bus carrying officials of a nuclear establishment in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city has once again raised questions over Islamabad's claims that nuclear facilities in the country are safe and guarded well enough to counter the Taliban's increasingly bold assaults against the country's military complex. Immediately after the attack, in which one person was killed and several others grievously wounded, the government denied reports that the bus was carrying officials from nuclear plant, but military experts believe that it was apparently an attempt to avoid further embarrassment, The New York Times reports.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A writer claims to have busted the "myths" behind the claims made by leading brands like Coke and Kentucky Fried Chicken to emphasise the uniqueness of their secret-ingredient-containing products. William Poundstone, in his book "Big Secrets", says that laboratory tests can easily reveal what chemicals and ingredients appear in what quantities of a given sample of food.

June 12th, 2009 PESHAWAR - North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for Prisons Mian Nisar Gul was seriously injured while his driver and two body guards were killed in a militant attack in Dara Adamkhel region late Thursday. According to the sources, the militants attacked Gul's vehicle while he was on his way to Peshawar from his native district of Karak.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has been told by his intelligence officials that North Korea intends to conduct another nuclear test in response to the passing of a U.N.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - None of the four air samples taken from the "cloud" from North Korea's purported May 25 nuclear test prove that North Korea tested a nuclear device, Fox News has quoted a senior U.S. defense official, as saying.

May 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Former United States ambassador to Pakistan, Bill Milam, has rubbished Nawaz Sharif's claim that the then US President Bill Clinton had offered him five billion dollars for shelving its plan of conducting the nuclear test in 1998. In an interview to a private television channel, Milam said Clinton could not have made any such offer to Nawaz, as he would have had to get Congress' approval for that, The Daily Times reports.

May 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - DNA tests carried out on the bodies believed to be of Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his son have matched, a military spokesman said Thursday. Army medical experts carried out the tests on the bodies of the two men killed last week in northeastern Sri Lanka, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.