Pak has not shared info with US about its nukes

October 15th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that there is no threat to the country's nuclear assets from terrorists as they were being tightly guarded by the military. Despite the fact that terrorists have displayed their might by attacking the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, Musharraf claimed that it was impossible for the extremists to fight the military and establish control over the nuclear armaments.

August 16th, 2009 WARSAW - Pakistan has been claiming that its nuclear weapons are protected with some world class security measures in place, and that there is no fear of them falling into extremists hands, but according to a German expert the threat to Pakistan's nukes is real. According to Jochen Hippler, a Pakistan expert at the University of Duisburg , it is very hard to keep the nuclear armaments safe, primarily due to the country's incompetent and corrupt political leaders.

July 26th, 2009 PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was taken to hospital Sunday after falling ill while exercising, French media reports said. France Info radio said the incident occurred before noon at his residence in Versailles.

July 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Expressing concerns over the expanding terror threat, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen has said Al-Qaeda is trying to get hold of nuclear weapons to wreak havoc across the world particularly in America. Speaking at the Junior Statesman Summer School Programme, Admiral Mullen said the leadership of both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban is desperately trying to acquire nukes to target Western countries.

July 24th, 2009 PARIS - The 12-year-old girl who miraculously survived the June 30 crash of a Yeminia Airbus A310 near the Comoros islands has left hospital care in Paris, France Info radio reported Friday. Bahiya Bakari spent 10 hours clinging to wreckage in the water after the plane plunged into the sea.

May 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Dismissing America's fears about Pakistan nukes falling into the Taliban's hands, the Pakistan Army has asked the United States to focus more on the weapons that the allied forces have lost in the war against terror in Afghanistan. In an interview to a private television channel, the ISPR spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said that a large quantity of the arms and ammunition being used by the Taliban in the country are coming from Afghanistan, and the United States should pay attention to this rather than expressing concerns over the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has reportedly sent out a military plane equipped with a "nuke sniffer" to find out the power of the bomb tested by North Korea. According to The Sun, the VC-10 tanker was scrambled from RAF Brize Norton, Oxon, to take air samples near the rogue state with an underwing pod.

May 29th, 2009 LAHORE - Dismissing global fears about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal falling into the Taliban's hand's, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the nuclear command and control system is in safe custody. Asserting that the country's nukes are far more secure than that of any other country in the world,Sharif told participants at a Yaum-e-Takbeer function, that successive dictatorial regimes were to blame for the present chaos in the country.

May 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Tariq Majid has said that the country's nuclear weapons are in safe custody and the world wide concerns about it being falling into the Taliban's hands are 'unfounded'. General Majid assured a US delegation here that Pakistan's nukes were absolutely safe and that there is an immaculate multilayered security arrangement guarding the country's nuclear assets.

May 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has said that it is ready to phase out its nuclear weapons if India too agrees to do the same. Terming Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as a 'deterrent' against India, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani said Islamabad is willing to ink an accord with New Delhi in order to destroy the nukes possessed by the two neighboring countries.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan's mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. According to the US intelligence sources, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, has been given orders to remain prepared for action at short notice.

May 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has said that it does not need any certification from India or any other country to prove that the control and command mechanism of its nuclear arsenal is fool-proof. "We certainly do not need any certification from India and for that matter from any other country.

May 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Concerned by reports of an imminent threat to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from the Taliban, US Senator Richard Luger has asked President Obama to force Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to ensure the safety of the nukes. According to The Nation, Senate foreign committee member, Luga,r urged Obama to ask Zardari to step up security for Pakistan's nuclear facilities.

May 4th, 2009 Mullen says he believes Pakistan nukes are secureWASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top military officer said Monday that he is comfortable that Pakistan's nuclear weapons remain secure, but is gravely concerned about Taliban advances there and in Afghanistan. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the United States has worked with the Pakistanis to improve the security of their nuclear arsenal and he believes that country's military is focused on keeping them secure.

April 30th, 2009 Obama: Militants unlikely to get Pakistan's nukesWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he is confident Pakistan's nuclear arsenal will stay out of militants' hands. But he said he is "gravely concerned" about that nation's stability.