Iran attempted to buy a nuclear bomb from Pakistan as early as 1987, a leading Middle East analyst has told Haaretz.
Documents obtained by Simon Henderson, a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former journalist, offer crucial evidence that Iran’s nuclear program is not wholly for civilian purposes as it [...]

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Why did China give Pakistan a pre-tested design of a missile-mountable warhead? Because Khan had stolen the European designs to a more efficient method of enriching uranium. A simple design swap with China was in order. China got a bonus by undermining Indian security.
The other thread is China. Despite a raft of laws and sporadic [...]

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There is one country responding to China’s military build-up and aggressiveness with some muscle of its own. No, it is not the United States, the superpower ostensibly responsible for maintaining peace and security in Asia. Rather, it is India, whose military is currently refining a “two-front war” doctrine to fend off Pakistan and China simultaneously. [...]

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India’s current arsenal of missiles is largely intended for confronting archrival Pakistan. The Agni III, in contrast, is India’s longest-range missile, designed to reach 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) – putting China’s major cities well into range, as well as Middle Eastern targets.
India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile – washingtonpost.com

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At least 16 militants were killed on Tuesday after US drones fired numerous missiles at a village in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.
The strike, which officials said involved 18 missiles fired from eight of the unmanned planes, is the latest in a series of US attacks on the lawless [...]

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Almost certainly India is looking to the future, at a post-US withdrawal from Afghanistan scenario. Despite US efforts to build up Indian military capabilities as a counter-balance to growing Chinese strength, India remains conscious of its inability to meet China militarily or economically on equal terms.
With the imminent US departure from Afghanistan, China is going [...]

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Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began. Beginning the day after the attack [...]

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Pakistan is likely to become a more Islamist state and increasingly anti-American in the coming years, complicating U.S. efforts to win its support against Islamist militants, a report released on Tuesday said.
The report, which looks at Pakistan over a one-to-three year time horizon, rules out the possibility of a Taliban takeover or of it becoming [...]

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Foreign Policy magazine recently surveyed the top 100 global thinkers, asking them to rate countries by dangerousness. The U.S. and Israel rank very high on the list.
What is the most dangerous country in the world?
1. Pakistan – 54%
2. Somalia – 10%
3. United States – 10%
4. Iran – 10%
5. Russia – 5%
6. Israel – 4%
7. North [...]

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From Iran to Yemen, and from Zimbabwe to Italy, we look at the prospects for conflict and include the Guardian’s Troublespotometer rating
2010 may be the year when the Afghan war definitively spreads into ill-governed, unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. And why stop there? After that, there’s Kashmir and India itself.
Guardian Troublespotometer Rating: 65%

The world’s most likely trouble [...]

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