Pakistan's most prominent - and vocal - retired army chiefs are demanding that the country's air force be ordered to shoot down drones and helicopters - and increasingly angry active-duty officers are voicing their approval in off-the-record conversations with Pakistani journalists. The country's senior generals on active duty are being blasted as "American stooges." Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, the retired army chief who succeeded President Zia ul-Haq, who died in a mysterious 1988 plane crash, told the Nation daily that U.S. military and CIA drones were increasing the tempo of their intrusions into Pakistani airspace and that many Pakistani people had been killed. "We have got the means to avert threats to our security," Gen. Beg said, "and our air force must be ordered to take action agains...
[...] Islamic extremists will require real-time information identifying the precise location of Pakistan's nuclear weapons components. [...] Islamic extremists desiring to steal a Pakistani nuclear weapon must have sufficient intelligence to differentiate between storage sites that house shields and storage sites that house the fissile cores.
... device.72 One former army chief, General Aslam Beg, reportedly argued that the sale of nuclear te...
... Khan, Zia ul-Haq, Pervez Musharraf, Mirza Aslam Beg, Jehangir Karamat and Ashfaq Kayani in terms o...
KARACHI, Pakistan -- The Abdullah Haroon Orphanage's rose- colored walls rise like a flower from a swarming gray slum in this coastal city of 16 million. Inside, Hussain Haroon tousles the jet-black hair of a young boy, one of 50 he sponsors at the orphanage.
...Former army chief Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg thinks the situation is so dire that he and ot...
... chief of the Pakistani Army, General Mirza Aslam Beg, wrote that AfPak has presented many challenge...
Corera looks at Khan's rise from a metallurgy student in Europe to become the leader of an important global network for acquiring nuclear technology and helping build a Pakistani nuclear weapons program. Rather, since nuclearweapons are inherently unusable,widespread proliferation is a positive development which renders war unlikely if not impossible throughout theworld.Corera also notes the longstanding viewin the developingworld that the spread of nuclear weapons could help to disperse power around the world and therefore challenge the dominance of a few nations in global politics.
... Pakistani Chief of Staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg as well as with large elements of the Pakistan...
KARACHI, Pakistan -- The Abdullah Haroon Orphanage's rose- colored walls rise like a flower from a swarming gray slum in this coastal city of 16 million. Inside, Hussain Haroon tousles the jet-black hair of a young boy, one of 50 he sponsors at the orphanage.
...Former army chief Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg thinks the situation is so dire that he and ot...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The father of Pakistan's nuclear program told investigators he gave nuclear weapons technology to other countries with the full knowledge of top army officials, including now-President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a friend of the scientist said today. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, told the friend he hadn't violated Pakistan's laws by giving out-of-use machines for enriching uranium to Iran, North Korea and other countries, the friend told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
...Mirza Aslam Beg and Gen. Jehangir Karamat - and even Musharraf...
... to Iran was approved by the then-army chief Aslam Beg, and that the deal with North Korea was suppor...
Leaders of Pakistan's four-party governing coalition will meet next week to develop a strategy to deal with foreign extremists in the tribal areas where, Prime Minister Yousaf Reza Gilani said, their numbers are increasing by the day. Mr. Gilani told reporters that the militants could precipitate a Sept. 11-type attack again unless strong action is taken against them.
...Retired army chief Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg told the Washington Times recently that foreig...
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