Jaishankar and Rubio (AP photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar late Tuesday met US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Washington against the backdrop of India and the United States recently finalising a long-pending trade deal, under which Washington agreed to cut tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent after nearly a…
Pete Hegseth warns Iran, says US military “will be prepared” for action US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday warned Iran against pursuing nuclear weapons, saying the United States is ready to act under President Donald Trump’s orders. He made the remarks during a Cabinet meeting as the US continues to deploy warships and…
AI-generated image used for representation (Source: ChatGPT) Islamic Nato in the making? Turkey is seeking to join a defence alliance between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, this can be seen as an effort in direction to reshape security alignments in the Middle East region and beyond, as Bloomberg reported.The pact, initially signed by Pakistan and…
In a startling revelation, former CIA counterproliferation officer Richard Barlow has claimed that successive US Presidents continued to certify Pakistan as a non-nuclear state until 1989 — even though Washington’s own intelligence showed that US-supplied F-16 fighter jets had been modified to deliver nuclear weapons.Barlow, who tracked Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear program through the 1980s, said…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s initial motive for developing nuclear weapons — to counter India — gradually evolved into an effort to create an “Islamic bomb” aimed at aiding other Muslim nations, including Iran, according to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Richard Barlow.Barlow, who served as a counter-proliferation officer during the 1980s when Islamabad was covertly…
Donald Trump (AP image) and Beijing spokesperson Mao Ning (FMPRC website) China on Monday firmly denied claims by US President Donald Trump that it has been secretly conducting nuclear weapons tests. The government reiterated its long-standing commitment to a moratorium on nuclear testing and its policy of peaceful development.Responding to questions at a regular press…
US President Donald Trump appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes in his first interview with the network since settling a lawsuit with CBS News earlier this year. Trump had famously walked out of a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl before the 2020 election, accusing the show of bias. Trump later sued the company over the…