International community nowhere near goal of N-weapon free world: India



India has asserted that the international community is nowhere close to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by the year 2010 under an action plan presented by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to the United Nations over two decades ago.



22 years ago, on 9th June 1988, India's then Prime Minister, the young Shri Rajiv Gandhi, presented... an Action Plan for a Nuclear Weapons-Free and Non-violent World Order, which set out a roadmap to attain the goal of nuclear disarmament...by this year, 2010, Indian delegate and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said at the UN General Assembly here yesterday.

Tragically, we are no nearer attaining that goal today than we were 22 years ago, he added. The promise of a nuclear weapon-free world, which seemed a real possibility near the end of the Cold...

Richard Holbrooke met with President Asif Ali Zardari late Friday after his arrival, the presidency said in a statement. — File Photo

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday urged the global community and donor agencies to help and support its poverty-stricken economy that has been ravaged by war and the cost of terrorism.

At a ministerial meeting which included US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, “Pakistan has lost 43 billion dollars in the last nine years and our exports and foreign investments have been badly hurt.”

Holbrooke is in Pakistan ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit for high-level security talks in Pakistan and to attend a July 20 Afghanistan donors conference.

He met with President Asif Ali Zardari late Friday after his arrival, the presidency said in a...