The US and EU are convinced that Iran is developing its nuclear power for warfare, but Iran denies and claims that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes. This week Iranians would elect a new president. It halted further talks on the nuclear issues with the West and the United Nations. ...

VIENNA - Britain has stepped up efforts to let India join an influential global body controlling nuclear exports, a move that would boost New Delhi's standing as an atomic power but which has faced resistance from China and other countries.The diplomatic tussle centers on whether emerging power ...

SEOUL : North Korea on Saturday made a fresh vow to build up its nuclear deterrent in the face of "threats of war" from the United States and a "policy of confrontation" from the South.An editorial in Pyongyang's ruling party daily, the Rodong Sinmun, said "reckless" war exercises by the US and ...

MOSCOW - Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction in its main generator, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Moscow said on Monday.Mahmoud Reza Sadjadi did not specify the nature of the malfunction or make clear whether it has caused the plant's shutdown, ...

 FAISALABADCriticising the massive power loadshedding and rising electricity shortfall, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association urged the incoming government to speed up the construction of nuclear and wind power plants, which are cost competitive, safe and reliable.They urged the upcoming ...

VIENNA  - The head of the UN atomic agency upped the ante with Iran Monday, saying Tehran may have literally bulldozed a key part of its probe into alleged efforts to develop a nuclear bomb.Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that because of "very extensive" engineering ...

stockholm- Three of the world's nuclear powers -- China, India and Pakistan -- have increased their nuclear arsenals over the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said on Monday.China now has 250 nuclear warheads against 240 in 2012; Pakistan has increased its warheads by ...

Three of the world's nuclear powers -- China, India and Pakistan -- have increased their nuclear arsenals over the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday.China now has 250 nuclear warheads against 240 in 2012; Pakistan has increased its warheads by about 10 to ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has praised the steps taken by Pakistan to promote nuclear security and peaceful applications of nuclear energy at a meeting between delegates of the two countries on Thursday, according to diplomatic sources.They said the US side called the Pakistani measures as ...

TOKYO- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an early accord on civil nuclear cooperation with Tokyo and more Japanese investment ahead of an official visit, reports said Sunday.Singh, who will travel to Japan in the coming week for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, made the ...

VIENNA  - Iran is trying to accelerate its uranium enrichment programme, a UN nuclear report showed, but experts said it was unclear when Tehran's new machines could start operating and how efficiently they would work.The Islamic state's progress in introducing next-generation centrifuges is ...

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang Thursday gave green signal to future expected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that his country would cooperate in civil nuclear technology to overcome energy crisis in the country.Talking to media after an hour long meeting, Nawaz Sharif said that friendship between ...

SEOULNorth Korea has yet to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a missile, a senior US official said on Wednesday, contradicting a recent US military intelligence report.The North claimed its third atomic test staged in February involved a "miniaturised and lighter" warhead, prompting ...

No country can progress without proper usage of its God given resources; people of Pakistan are facing lots of problems due to misuse of its resources. The government of a country tries to improve the living conditions for its masses, but we have seen the opposite happening in Pakistan. Issues such ...

NEW DELHI :India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests. "The plant has been set up for people's welfare," said the ruling on the Kudankulam plant. "Necessary ...

ANKARA :JapanandTurkeyon Friday signed a long-awaited deal to build a sprawling nuclear power plant onTurkey’sBlack Seacoast, a milestone for the Japanese nuclear industry as it recovers from the 2011Fukushimadisaster. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the $22 billion contract as a ...

ABU DHABI : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country will sign a nuclear treaty with the UAE on Thursday as he stressedTokyo’s cooperation with itsMiddle Eastpartners. Abe, making his second visit to the Gulf country as prime minister, arrived late on Wednesday in theUnited Arab ...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - The United States should offer Pakistan a conditions-based civilian nuclear deal as a way to save the relationship, severely tested during the last decade, as well as secure long-term interests with regard to containing militancy and atomic safety, an American analyst on ...

NEW DELHI - India has warned Pakistan that it will retaliate massively even if Pakistan used tactical nuclear weapons against it. As Pakistan is developing "tactical" nuclear warheads to miniaturise its weapons to be carried on short-range missiles, India will protect its security interests by ...

No country can progress without proper usage of its God given resources; people of Pakistan are facing lots of problems due to misuse of its resources. The government of a country tries to improve the living conditions for its masses, but we have seen the opposite happening in Pakistan. Issues such ...

SEOUL North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a US condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament. North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the ...

BEIJING - China and the United States Saturday vowed to work together to try to defuse nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula, as US Secretary of State John Kerry said the world stood at a "critical" juncture.During an intense day of diplomacy in Beijing, Kerry warned Chinese leaders including ...

LONDON (AFP) - G8 foreign ministers strongly condemned North Korea over its nuclear programme on Thursday but failed to bridge divisions over Syria beyond calling for more humanitarian aid for victims of the conflict.After a two-day meeting in London, ministers including US Secretary of State John ...

DUBAI (Reuters/AFP) - Iran plans to build more nuclear power reactors in an earthquake-prone coastal area, Iranian media said on Wednesday, a day after a strong tremor struck the region close to its only existing such plant.Tuesday’s 6.3-magnitude quake hit 89 km (55 miles) southeast of the ...

NEW DELHI - US Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that late Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi offered to share information on nuclear technology with Pakistan, reported Times of India and PTI on Wednesday.According to WikiLeaks, Gandhi had written to the then Pakistan prime ...

By coincidence, two clashes over nuclear issues are hitting the headlines together. North Korea and Iran have both had sanctions imposed by foreign governments and when they refuse to “behave properly”, they are subjected to “isolation” and put in the corner until they are ...

Pakistan on Wednesday conducted a successful launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Hatf IV Shaheen-1 Weapon System. The missile incorporates series of improvements in range and technical parameters of the existing missile. It is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to ...

A powerful earthquake struck near Iran's Gulf port city of Bushehr on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 800 but leaving Iran's only nuclear power plant intact, officials said.Shocks from the quake were felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - The United States' top diplomat warned Iran on Sunday that time is running out on nuclear negotiations between the Islamic republic and world powers."This is not an endless process. ... You can't just talk for the sake of talking," Secretary of State John Kerry told a news ...

Dmitry ZAKSTalks between world powers and Iran to find a solution to end tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive have once again hit an impasse, even if the diplomatic process is not yet seen to be at risk of collapsing.Negotiators from world powers came to the snow-peaked city of Almaty for the ...