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Monday 17th November, 2008 (IANS)
India and Russia are set to expand their nuclear cooperation as they deepen their ties in a changed international context, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Monday.
“We hope to expand civil nuclear cooperation. All the formalities are done,” Menon told diplomats and strategic experts here ahead of Russian President Dmitry [...]

ISLAMABAD, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Pakistani government said on Friday it would privatise 37 percent of the state’s stake in the Qadirpur gas field to accelerate exploration and increase production.
The state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd. (OGDC.KA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), Pakistan’s largest listed company, owns 75 percent of the gas [...]

* Delegate says IAEA should ensure equitable access to nuclear materials, technology and equipment for peaceful purposes
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Tuesday called for evolving a universal and non-discriminatory criterion that would ensure every state’s right to peaceful nuclear energy use to meet the growing worldwide energy demand.
“In this regard, principles should be placed above expediency [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign minister says China has signed an agreement with this energy starved Islamic nation to help it build two more nuclear power plants.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi says the agreement was included among 12 accords and Memorandums of Understandings that were signed between the two sides during President Asif Ali Zardari’s recent [...]

By Bonnie Pfister
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
The development of nuclear power plants in the United States will chug forward regardless of who becomes the next president, industry experts say.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has called for the construction of 45 plants by 2030. Democrat Barack Obama concedes that nuclear power has a role to play in cleaner-burning energy production [...]

By L. Jayasooriya
The nuclear deal that India has struck with America or America has struck with India as the case may be could be a potential threat, not in terms of nuclear weapons, but in terms of the unknown that could happen to the stability of all Asian countries over which India wants to exercise [...]

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali gunmen Wednesday kidnapped a Pakistani national working for a Canadian oil firm in the lawless country’s breakaway Puntland region, an official and witnesses said.
The kidnappers seized the man near Puntland’s capital Bossaso, said the official with the region’s mining ministry.
“We don’t know the identity of the kidnappers and their motive, [...]

By Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China are set to establish a corporation to attract investment for nuclear and coal-based power plants and large dams in the country, sources in the Water and Power Ministry told Daily Times.
The Pak-China Joint Power Corporation will also help develop technology and technical expertise for the new power projects. Pakistani [...]

by Damien McElroy and Rahul Bedi in New Dehli
Pakistan has demanded access to international nuclear technology to power its energy-starved economy after a landmark agreement between India and America gained Congressional approval.
by Damien McElroy and Rahul Bedi in New Dehli
By testing nuclear weapons in defiance of non-proliferation treaties, the sub-continental neighbours were atomic [...]