WASHINGTON: A US-based international nuclear proliferation watchdog today said Pakistan's application to the NSG should not be granted on its refusal to even minimally split its military and civil atomic programmes. This was stated by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in ...

NEW DELHI - India is mounting another strong bid for admission to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an elite club of 48 countries that deal with fissile materials and nuclear technology, which is set to meet in June and December this year, three persons familiar with the hectic ...

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal has said that Pakistan s nuclear programme is only for defense purposes. Speaking on the 20th anniversary of nuclear tests, he said that Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998 in response to the nuclear tests and accompanying ...

NEW DELHI - India and China held the fifth round of the Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Dialogue here against the backdrop of Beijing continuing to block New Delhi’s entry to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) citing proliferation issues. The low-key bilateral dialogue is a platform for both ...

*New Delhi: *India's entry into elite nuclear groups in the recent past has reaffirmed the country's strict non-proliferation commitments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. His remarks come in the backdrop of India becoming a member of the 'Australia Group' (AG), a move that is expected to ...

MOSCOW - Russia said late on Tuesday that it will provide every possible support to Pakistan to make it a developed country, Radio Pakistan reported. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated his country’s support to Islamabad while responding to a question during a press ...

NEW DELHI - The US is working "very closely" with international partners to secure India's Nuclear Suppliers Group membership, its envoy Kenneth Juster said today and hoped that New Delhi would join the Australia Group on chemical and biological weapons in the "very near future", PTI ...

ISLAMABAD - Pavel Didkovsky, First Secretary at Russian Embassy, underlined the possibility of a criteria based approach for inclusion of non-NPT states in Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). He said Russia along with China and others were working for a formula that could be acceptable to all.Didkovsky ...

BEIJING - China has played down the significance of Indian entry into Waseenar agreement saying it need not necessarily pave the way for New Delhi's admission into the NSG as the elite nuclear group may have a different criteria, NDTV has reported.India was admitted to Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) ...

BEIJING: China on Wednesday asserted its opposition to India's membership bid to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), saying there is no change in its stand and efforts were on to forge "consensus" among the 48-member elite nuclear club about the admission of new members."China's position on this ...