The Mi5 document, titled 'Companies and Organisations of Proliferation Concern,' has been compiled in an attempt to prevent British companies inadvertently exporting sensitive goods or expertise to organizations covertly involved in WMD programmes.
In an obvious reference to Pakistan, India's ambassador to the US Ronen Sen said India was "adjacent" to the "biggest source and destination of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" and also to the "largest concentration of terrorists."
Asked about the anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan, US State Department spokeman Richard Boucher said: "Pakistanis and others certainly have the right to demonstrate and express their political beliefs."
What has been forgotten is the fundamental characteristic of these contracts. What is trading in index numbers if not a wager? Is it not speculation per se packaged in sophisticated language, exotic terms and backed by legislation and regulators?
The band members are quite different from the image their portray.
the Iraqi ruler may have moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the March, 2003 invasion by the US-led coalition, say reports.
While the US omitted China and Russia from the list of invitees, Beijing was furious over the invitation to the self-governing island Taiwan, which China said is a blatant violation of the 'One China' policy that considers Taipei as the integral part of the Chinese mainland.
"India is a responsible nuclear power, and we will continue to work to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Singh said in his first address to the nation after becoming PM
In the Rajya Sabha, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu could not read out his customary closing remarks that sum up the business conducted in the House during the session, as Shiv Sena and other opposition MPs created a ruckus.
In a dramatic nationwide broadcast on Friday evening, the American president commended Libyan leader Maommar Gadhafi's 'wise, responsible and constructive' example to other nations.
Asserting that global threats like terrorism require global response, he said globalisation had "sharpened the threat posed to us by instability in both our immediate and our proximate neighbourhood".
Soon after the panel vice chairman Sasmit Patra called for the start of the discussion amid slogan shouting, leaders of various opposition parties took to raising points of order frequently to get the discussion stalled.
New Delhi is also looking at similar systems being offered by Russia and Israel.
He says the entire plan was hatched to help the Republicans gain politically.
In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, President George W Bush had made clear to British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he was determined to attack the country without a United Nations resolution.
The International Institute of Strategic Studies warned the fighters are waiting for orders to attack targets in Europe and the United States.\n\n
The normally courteous US secretary of state got angry at a Congressman's staffer nodding his head during his Iraq testimony before a congressional hearing.
"The report has as much validity as the report by the CIA director about the alleged existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq," he said referring to the report by Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
The notes do not provide any indication of what Bush meant by including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on the list of concern over so-called weapons of mass destruction.
The United States on Friday opened its first customs office in the country with a view to check, among other things, smuggling, money laundering and shipment of weapons of mass destruction to America.
The defence minister also said that Pakistan 'has a habit of lying' when it comes to the Kashmir issue.
The US secretary of state said Washington was in "very close touch" with both Pakistan and India.
India-born Dhiren Barot plotted to 'kill thousands' in the US and UK.
This will give the opposition another opportunity to question his use of "seriously flawed" intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
The former BBC director general has accused PM of trying to force the corporation to change its tone of coverage of the Iraq war and the issue of WMD.
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