Pakistan accuses India of planting a bomb on a train that killed more than 20 people. Wednesday 3 June 1998 Bomb safe, says Pakistan Pakistani government, sensitive to Western fears of nuclear growth, insists its nuclear technology is not for export. After two decades of begging, cadging and copying weapons technology, Mr Abdul Qadeer Khan is basking in an outpouring of national adulation. A pause in nuclear testing announced by India and Pakistan has paved the way for mediation to prevent a further escalation in the regional arms race. Pakistanis refuse to back down From the wealthy side of Islamabad comes a vote of support for the tests and a willingness to pay the costs.
Fresh tests heighten fears of a regional nuclear arms race.
Beijing blames New Delhi China has blames New Delhi for rising tension in South Asia after Pakistan detonated nuclear tests. Nations fall out World powers at odds how to respond to the nuclear blasts. Arabs a step behind Pakistan's nuclear tests have created a bitter political fallout in the Arab world. The new Cold War Asia's nuclear arms race heightens superpower fears of a new turbulence on the subcontinent. Australia cuts Pakistan links Pakistan's nuclear tests prompt an angry response from the Federal Government.