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by arun
21 Mar 2005 18:01
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Meanwhile from the New York Times : March 21, 2005 Pakistani's Nuclear Black Market Seen as Offering Deepest Secrets of Building Bomb By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER Nuclear investigators from the United States and other nations now believe that the black market network run by the Pakistani ...
by arun
21 Mar 2005 17:55
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Joining the "destroyed in testing" detonator from the Mumbai Serial blast and the "misplaced" plutonium sample snagged over Chagai....... Washington Post : U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export North Korea Sent Material To Pakistan, Not to Libya By Dafna Linzer Washington Post ...
by arun
19 Mar 2005 14:56
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: Project 75 & Submarine Options
Replies: 331
Views: 200875

X Post. Wait for Scorpene may soon be over: NEW DELHI: A rapidly-emerging gap in India's conventional military capabilities is likely to be plugged soon, with the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) all set to give the green signal to the $2 billion French Scorpene submarine project. "The Cabin...
by arun
18 Mar 2005 14:47
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Extract from Secy. Rice's interview with Pakistani TV : MR. MIR: Are you satisfied with the investigations regarding the nuclear black marketing and investigations against Dr. A.Q. Khan? SECRETARY RICE: First of all, it was a very good thing for the world that the A.Q. Khan network is out of busines...
by arun
18 Mar 2005 14:41
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Testimony of Director of Central Intelligence, Porter J. Goss, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence : “We believe North Korea continues to pursue a uranium enrichment capability drawing on the assistance it received from A.Q. Khan before his network was shutdown.” And regarding that ot...
by arun
07 Jan 2005 19:30
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

Confirmed. India signs agreement with Iran to import LNG Jan 7, 2005 04:29:00 PM New Delhi, Jan 7 (PTI) Energy-hungry India today signed an agreement to import 7.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas from Iran from 2009 under an oilfield-for-LNG deal where Tehran will also give Indian firms deve...
by arun
07 Jan 2005 06:41
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

Iran quotes higher price for LNG: New Delhi, Jan. 6 (PTI): Iran has changed its pricing formulae for liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale to India and is demanding 28 cents more per million British thermal unit (MBTU). Iran is demanding about a dollar more than India’s offer of a fixed price of $2.4 pe...
by arun
01 Jan 2005 20:53
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Boston Globe Editorial : GLOBE EDITORIAL Pakistan's Secrets December 30, 2004 A.Q. KHAN, the Pakistani metallurgist, is known to have peddled nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. What is not known -- at least by US intelligence -- is what he did on visits to Afghanistan, Egypt, Ivory Coa...
by arun
16 Nov 2004 18:06
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

German suspected of helping Libyan nuclear program arrested in Switzerland Updated at 8:15 on November 16, 2004, EST. BERLIN (AP) - A 61-year-old German engineer has been arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant on suspicion that he helped Libya's past efforts to build a nuclear bomb, fe...
by arun
10 Nov 2004 20:25
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

Sakhalin-1 launches oil pipeline construction : Moscow, November 9 The international consortium led by US-based Exxon Mobil as operator, launched on Tuesday the construction of giant Sakhalin-1 project oil pipeline on the Sakhalin island. The consortium, which includes, besides Exxon Mobil, Japan’s...
by arun
07 Nov 2004 21:02
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

The Malaysians get into the LNG regassification act.

Petronas to set up regasification terminal in Kochi
by arun
07 Nov 2004 20:57
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

Petronet floats tender for LNG ships : ................"PLL has floated global tenders for time-chartering three more LNG tankers as well as for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the expansion of Dahej terminal to 10 million tonne and a greefield re-gasification ter...
by arun
11 Oct 2004 20:46
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Swiss man arrested in widening Libya nuclear probe KARLSRUHE, Germany, Oct 11 (AFP) - A Swiss man was arrested in Germany on suspicion of involvement in an international smuggling ring to supply nuclear equipment and know-how to Libya, the federal prosecutor's office announced on Monday. The 39-yea...
by arun
07 Oct 2004 19:57
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Rye,

Thanks for the link.
by arun
07 Oct 2004 19:52
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Pakistan feared as source of nuclear terror : A new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on nuclear terrorism said, “ The fear regarding Pakistan is that some members of the armed forces might covertly give a weapon to terrorists or that, if President Musharraf were overthrown, an Isl...
by arun
03 Oct 2004 16:54
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

MEA Press Briefing Oct 1 : Question: On Bangladesh, there are reports that the Indian Petroleum Minister was prevented from going there. Does that mean that India is going back on the Myanmar pipeline project? Answer: Let me say that as far as this issue of pipelines is concerned, in the context of...
by arun
02 Oct 2004 13:22
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

India Is Ready to Discuss Gas Pipeline 09.30.2004, 12:35 PM http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2004/09/30/ap1568446.html Pakistan also would have access to the gas, and earn an estimated US$600 million (euro 483 million) a year in transit fees. Fancy figures such as this the USD 600 Million per ye...
by arun
02 Oct 2004 11:37
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Brazil under nuclear microscope -- again Brazil's nuclear program was once again subject to international scrutiny Thursday following U.N. speculation that a Pakistani scientist who supplied sensitive nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran, also divulged the information to the South Amer...
by arun
02 Oct 2004 11:18
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004
Replies: 321
Views: 111666

Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 02 October 2004

Brazil may have tapped into Pakistani nuclear smuggling network - US expert VIENNA (AFP) Oct 01, 2004 Brazil may have acquired key nuclear technology it is trying to keep UN atomic inspectors from seeing from a nuclear smuggling network that also supplied Iran, Libya and North Korea, a US non-proli...
by arun
23 Sep 2004 16:51
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: The Saras Flies!
Replies: 236
Views: 97193

Extract from the People's Democracy article posted by Sohum Desai: Yet there has been extreme shyness in acknowledging that Saras originated from a collaborative venture with the Russian (formerly Soviet) Myasischev Design Bureau based heavily on one of the latter’s highly similar aircraft codenamed...
by arun
20 Sep 2004 21:21
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

My pleasure, for your appreciative words, Raj.
by arun
20 Sep 2004 18:03
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

Good find about the negotiations at OPEC. Have there been any other discussions of the transport of LNG to India from IRan, other than through Pakistan? LNG transportation between Iran and India is and has always been completely independent of Pakistan and they are entirely superfluous in the matte...
by arun
12 Sep 2004 14:13
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion - VI
Replies: 323
Views: 168187

First of all, I need confirmation of the annual quantity, and investment cost of the proposed pipeline through Pakistan. You might find this presentation by BHPBilliton ,who were commissioned by NIOC to do a feasibility study, useful. Costs estimated at USD 4.16 Bn and gas throughput at 1.5 to 3 BC...