Pak rubbish reports about sharing nuke secrets with West

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has dismissed reports that he is poised to leave the Spurs and insisted that his relationship with chairman Daniel Levy was healthy. Earlier, it was reported that despite Redknapp leading Spurs to their best start to a season for 50 years, he was having some tough time with the chairman of the club.

September 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan military is closely evaluating a series of statements and interviews made by former Army officials in the recent past to ascertain whether they are guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act of 1923 or not. Sources said the military top brass is reviewing all such statements of the former defence officials which seemed to have disclosed secret military information.

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.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Q Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, is a free man again and many consider that he may share the secrets with establishments around the world. In January 2004, Khan had confessed to having been involved in a secret international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

August 15th, 2009 MOSCOW - A tracking device aboard a cargo ship, missing since late July, was briefly reactivated Saturday, showing the vessel's location in the Bay of Biscay, a Russian maritime journal said. Sovfrakht said the cargo ship was in the Atlantic near France's La Rochelle port, citing data from the tracking device at 08:30 GMT.

August 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has rejected reports that its nuclear facilities were attacked by militants at least thrice in the last two years. "It is rubbish.

August 3rd, 2009 HERAT - At least 12 people were killed and another 20 were injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in the western Afghanistan city of Herat on Monday, just weeks before the presidential elections. Provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai said the blast was caused by a bomb planted in a roadside rubbish bin and remotely detonated.

July 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Australian Government's open support to the Shanghai-based Australian general manager of iron ore mining company, Hu Stern, who has been arrested on espionage charges in China, is set to put the Kevin Rudd government in the worst foreign policy crisis since taking office in November 2007. "Frankly, it is difficult for a nation like Australia to see a relationship between espionage and national security and what appeared to be suggestions about commercial or economic negotiations," Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in the wake of Australian consular officials gaining access to Hu for the first time since his arrest last Sunday.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - British weapons inspector David Kelly was writing a book exposing highly damaging government secrets before his mysterious death. He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion.

June 23rd, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese government officials will soon be required to think twice before connecting their flash-disks loaded with State secrets into unsecured computers, as they are likely to come under tighter surveillance to prevent leaks of confidential information. The top legislature was informed on Monday during briefings on amendments to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, that a tougher law was needed to cut access to the Internet or other public networks from secure computers, China Daily reports.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - A construction company that built the headquarters of one of Britain's most sensitive spy bases - MI-5, has inadvertently revealed some of its well kept secrets on the Internet. The publicity brochure placed online contains the address and full colour pictures of its northern operations center, reports The Times.

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.

April 30th, 2009 Poll: Swedish pro file-sharing party gains supportSTOCKHOLM, Sweden — A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalizing Internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June. The poll published Thursday in the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter shows the Pirate Party's backing has surged after a court verdict against The Pirate Bay file-sharing site.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - Looks like a new love is on the cards for Prince Harry. According to reports, the royal has been swapping texts with pretty TV presenter Caroline Flack after a wild poker night.

February 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Five years after publicly confessing to illegally proliferating Pakistan's atomic secrets, being pardoned and then placed under house arrest, A.Q. Khan, the scientist who mentored the country's nuclear programme, finally walked free Friday after a court here said the charges against him could not be substantiated.