Showing posts with label Washington Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington Post. Show all posts

Monday, January 31, 2011

Pakistan has made strengthen its Nuclear Capability


The Washington Post published a story on Monday, mentioning US non-government analysts that Pakistan has gone beyond India in the atomic field, with almost 100 installed nuclear arsenals, a doubling-up of its store over the past many years. 

The Post said that only four years before, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was projected at 30 to 60 weapons. The report, quoting experts, added, "The Pakistanis have drastically speeded up manufacture of uranium and plutonium for bombs and developed new weapons to bring them. After years of approximate weapons equality, Pakistan has now framed in front of India, its nuclear-armed neighboring enemy.

"But Brig. Nazir Butt, defense envoy at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, neither accepted and nor rejected the Washington Post’s report and has said that Pakistan's weapons and the position of its production amenities were top secret.

Brig. Butt was mentioned as saying by the Post. "Being a nuclear command, we are very sure of our preventive abilities because Pakistan lives in a hard region and will never be ignorant to its security requirements. The President of the Institute for Science and International Security, David Albright, was referred as saying, “Pakistan has been increasing its nuclear capability rapidly. He said because of fast production of plutonium and extremely improved uranium,
Pakistan may now have an armory of equal to 110 weapons. India is expected to have 60 to 100 weapons.

Hans Kristensen, director of the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists and the writer of the annual global nuclear weapons inventory published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said, "It is very difficult to say that how much the U.S. knows, and quoted as saying, “Pakistan is a friend, and they can't destabilize with a statement of concern in public. But as per the Post, the government's resolve to take the fissile materials prohibit to achievement this year may require it to tackle more directly the issue of proliferation in South Asia.

"In politically breakable Pakistan, the management is fixed between worries of proliferation or potential terrorist challenges to grab nuclear materials and Pakistani distrusts that the United States intends to manage or edge its weapons program and favors India," the newspaper said.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Chinese President Visit to the US, dispute over Currency matter is still going on

To control the International Currency System through US dollar is a "creation of the precedent", said Chinese President Hu Jintao in a statement.
Mr. Hu Jintao also said that China was moving forward to replace with its own currency “Yuan” but accepted that would be “quite a long procedure”.
The remarks were published to two US newspapers come in front of state visit by the Chinese President to Washington this week. They intimate ongoing apprehensions over currency matter between the two countries.
In an exceptional interview published in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Mr Hu also repeated condemnation of a decision by the US Federal Reserve to insert $600 billion into the economy, which some argue will decline the dollar at the cost of other countries' exports.
Chinese President said that the monetary policy of the US has a main shock for global liquidity and capital flows, hence the liquidity of the US dollar should be reserved at a sensible and constant stage.
He opposed with the ideas that letting the Yuan appreciate in value would help China to tackle prices rises.
Beijing has earlier come under force over its currency from the US, which has blamed China of purportedly influencing the Yuan to help enhance Chinese exports.
In spite of differences of the current system, Mr Hu said he thought it would be a lengthy period before the Yuan or Renminbi (RMB) was established as a global currency.
He said China has made imperative contribution to the world economy in connection of complete economic productivity and trade, and the RMB has played a vital role in the world economic growth.
"But nominating the RMB as an international currency will be quite a long process.