Us Pakistan Nuclear Deal

Pakistan is yet to complete its part of the pipeline. The global sanctions against Iran and the resultant geopolitical pressure on Islamabad from the Uare the main reasons for the severe delay.

The civil nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the US is more of an "arms deal", but the focus of the bilateral partnership should be on "agriculture, technology and health care", former US Senator Larry Pressler said today

The set of foreign-policy challenges headed like a freight train at the Trump administration is obvious: the Islamic State and the associated tragedy of Syria; a bubbling North Korea led by an unpredictable dictator with a fistful of nuclear weapons; an angry China hypersensitive about Taiwan and the South China Sea; and Russian cyber-activity roil...

Pakistan has quietly entered into arrangements with China under which it gets what India gets under the nuclear deal with America and more, but without any of the conditionalities which cripple us under the US deal.

Pursuing a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan is not only unrealistic, poorly timed, and unwise, but also counterproductive to the US national interest, a leading South Asian expert on terrorism has told lawmakers.

As the US prepares to sell F-16s to Pakistan, the country's former top diplomat has warned the Congress that such fighter jets would end up being used against India and not against terrorists.

The possibility of a civil nuclear deal between the US and Pakistan needs close scrutiny because of Pakistan's close links with terror groups and a "long history of proliferation" of sensitive nuclear technology, an influential American lawmaker has said.

The US has "categorically ruled out" any kind of negotiations with Pakistan on India-type civil nuclear deal, terming the reports in American media "completely false".

Asserting that Pakistan has repeatedly proven itself to be "deceptive and deceitful", a top American lawmaker, who heads a Congressional subcommittee on terrorism and non-proliferation, has urged the US President not to ink any kind of civil nuclear deal with Islamabad.

Amidst talk of a possible US-Pak civil nuclear deal, two top US think-tanks have asked Pakistan to take five initiatives, including signing the Test Ban Treaty without waiting for India, to win the confidence of the international community.

The United States has downplayed reports of a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan, similar to the Indo-US atomic agreement, during Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington, saying a "breakthrough" in this regard was not expected.

As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today left for a major visit to the US, Pakistan today dismissed reports that America is negotiating a deal on limiting its nuclear and missile programmes.

Strongly of the view that Pakistan must restrain the development of its growing nuclear arsenal, eminent experts at top American think-tanks believe that given the country's past record it is unlikely to "play by any rules" to agree to a civil nuclear deal with the US.

The US went soft on Pakistan's nuclear smuggling efforts during former President Ronald Reagan's administration, fearing that any action would upset their bilateral ties at a critical time of the Afghan war, according to new declassified documents.

India today reacted to media reports about the US exploring a civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan on the lines of its agreement with India, saying Islamabad's track record on proliferation should be taken into account in any such decision.

Pakistan is yet to complete its part of the pipeline. The global sanctions against Iran and the resultant geopolitical pressure on Islamabad from the Uare the main reasons for the severe delay.

The civil nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the US is more of an "arms deal", but the focus of the bilateral partnership should be on "agriculture, technology and health care", former US Senator Larry Pressler said today

The set of foreign-policy challenges headed like a freight train at the Trump administration is obvious: the Islamic State and the associated tragedy of Syria; a bubbling North Korea led by an unpredictable dictator with a fistful of nuclear weapons; an angry China hypersensitive about Taiwan and the South China Sea; and Russian cyber-activity roil...

Pakistan has quietly entered into arrangements with China under which it gets what India gets under the nuclear deal with America and more, but without any of the conditionalities which cripple us under the US deal.

Pursuing a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan is not only unrealistic, poorly timed, and unwise, but also counterproductive to the US national interest, a leading South Asian expert on terrorism has told lawmakers.

As the US prepares to sell F-16s to Pakistan, the country's former top diplomat has warned the Congress that such fighter jets would end up being used against India and not against terrorists.

The possibility of a civil nuclear deal between the US and Pakistan needs close scrutiny because of Pakistan's close links with terror groups and a "long history of proliferation" of sensitive nuclear technology, an influential American lawmaker has said.

The US has "categorically ruled out" any kind of negotiations with Pakistan on India-type civil nuclear deal, terming the reports in American media "completely false".

Asserting that Pakistan has repeatedly proven itself to be "deceptive and deceitful", a top American lawmaker, who heads a Congressional subcommittee on terrorism and non-proliferation, has urged the US President not to ink any kind of civil nuclear deal with Islamabad.

Amidst talk of a possible US-Pak civil nuclear deal, two top US think-tanks have asked Pakistan to take five initiatives, including signing the Test Ban Treaty without waiting for India, to win the confidence of the international community.

The United States has downplayed reports of a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan, similar to the Indo-US atomic agreement, during Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington, saying a "breakthrough" in this regard was not expected.

As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today left for a major visit to the US, Pakistan today dismissed reports that America is negotiating a deal on limiting its nuclear and missile programmes.

Strongly of the view that Pakistan must restrain the development of its growing nuclear arsenal, eminent experts at top American think-tanks believe that given the country's past record it is unlikely to "play by any rules" to agree to a civil nuclear deal with the US.

The US went soft on Pakistan's nuclear smuggling efforts during former President Ronald Reagan's administration, fearing that any action would upset their bilateral ties at a critical time of the Afghan war, according to new declassified documents.

India today reacted to media reports about the US exploring a civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan on the lines of its agreement with India, saying Islamabad's track record on proliferation should be taken into account in any such decision.