“This is something the United States has tried to make happen for several years,” Gibbs said after a meeting between President Obama and Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich.

Highly enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon, and the summit is designed to choke off ways for terrorists to acquire such material.

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US Would Lose Cyberwar: Former Intel Chief

WASHINGTON: The United States would lose a cyberwar if it fought one today, a former US intelligence chief has warned.

Michael McConnell, a retired US Navy vice admiral who served as ex-president George W. Bush’s director of national intelligence, also compared the danger of cyberwar to the nuclear threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

“If we went to war today in a cyberwar, we would lose,” McConnell told a hearing Tuesday on cybersecurity held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

“We’re the most vulnerable, we’re the most connected, we have the most to lose.

“We will not mitigate this risk,” added McConnell, now an executive vice president for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton’s national security business. “And as a consequence of not mitigating this risk, we are going to have a catastrophic event.”

Tuesday’s hearing came a little over a month after Internet giant Google revealed that it and other US companies had been the target of a series of sophisticated cyberattacks originating in China.

“National security and our economic security are at stake,” said Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, the panel’s chairman and a co-sponsor of a bill seeking to bolster public and private sector cybersecurity cooperation.

“A major cyberattack could shut down our nation’s most critical infrastructure — our power grid, telecommunications, financial services.”

James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that government intervention would probably be needed to crack down on the “Wild West” the Internet has become.

The greatest threat to the United States comes from cyber espionage and cyber crime, he said, calling them a “major source of harm to national security.”

“We have lost more as a nation to espionage than at any time since the 1940s,” Lewis said.

Scott Borg, director of the US Cyber Consequences Unit, also warned of the economic damage from cyberattacks.

“Cyberattacks are already damaging the American economy much more than is generally recognized,” said Borg, whose independent research institute investigates the economic and strategic consequences of cyberattacks.

“The greatest damage to the American economy from cyberattacks is due to massive thefts of business information.

“This type of loss is delayed and hard to measure, but it is much greater than the losses due to personal identity theft and the associated credit card fraud,” he added.

In his prepared remarks, McConnell said the United States needs a “national strategy for cyber that matches our national strategy that guided us during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union and nuclear weapons posed an existential threat to the United States and its allies.”

He pointed to US President Barack Obama’s appointment of a cybersecurity coordinator in December and his national cybersecurity initiative as moves in the right direction, but said they were not enough.

“The federal government will spend more each year on missile defense than it does on cybersecurity,” he said, despite the potential for attacks that “could destroy the global financial system and compromise the future and prosperity of our nation.”

In order to secure cyberspace, McConnell suggested the United States provide a “more robust commitment” in leadership, policies, legislation and resources.

He called for establishing a National Cybersecurity Center modeled after the National Counter Terrorism Center set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

The center would integrate elements of the Pentagon’s proposed Cyber Command, the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center and the cyber operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, state and local governments and the private sector.

It would also serve as “the hub of information sharing and integration, situational awareness and analysis, coordination and collaboration,” McConnell said.

New Zealand 258-5 Against BD on 1st day

HAMILTON: New Zealand made 258 runs for the loss of five wickets on the first day of the only Test against Bangladesh here on Monday.

Martin Guptill with an unbeaten 80 is the top scorer.

After Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field, New Zealand lost their three early wickets for 66 but Guptill and other batsmen batted with responsibility to make recovery.

Guptill with a fighting 80 and McCullum with a brilliant 58 will resume the Kiwis first innings on 258-5 tomorrow.

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The world Must Recognise Pakistan’s Critical Anti-Terrorism Role And Understand The Complex War

Original Content.Thnewspk.com The world Must Recognise Pakistan’s Critical Anti-Terrorism Role And Understand The Complex War :Speaking at the international launch of a Pakistani TV drama, portraying the country’s ongoing anti-militant struggle at the cost of enormous human suffering, the ambassador said Pakistan has rendered more sacrifices than any other nation in the fight against terrorism.

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The world Must Recognise Pakistan’s Critical Anti-Terrorism Role And Understand The Complex War:Speaking at the international launch of a Pakistani TV drama, portraying the country’s ongoing anti-militant struggle at the cost of enormous human suffering, the ambassador said Pakistan has rendered more sacrifices than any other nation in the fight against terrorism. ‘Pakistan has lost more lives to terrorism in the last two years than any other country, more Pakistani soldiers have died in the battle against terrorism,’ Haqqani told Pakistani and American media representatives at the embassy, where director, playwright and cast introduced the play ‘Khuda Zameen Se Gaya Nahin’. ‘

Still there are people around the world who do not recognise Pakistan’s sacrifices and nor do they understand the complexity of this difficult war,’ the envoy added. Based on real happenings and written by Asghar Nadeem Syed, the drama serial depicts resilience and aspirations of the Pakistanis to move forward as a moderate people. The play, produced by Communication Research Strategies, will be beamed internationally in 16 episodes by PTV Globe.

The characters and situations in the production highlight psychological, emotional and social tensions in their struggle to defend their way of life. The play has been shot at 50 different locations and also shows lifelike scenes of Pakistani military actions against militants, produced with the help of Inter-Services Public Relations. In his remarks, Haqqani pointed out that the world owes it to the Pakistanis and Afghanis to help them tide over troubles that arose out of the West-supported Jihad against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when one extreme ideology was pitched against another. ‘When the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan, the United States left Pakistan and Afghanistan — the mujahideen (brought together from around the world) did not, and have morphed into the Taliban.’

The United States and Pakistan, he stated, are allies. ‘We do not always agree with one another but the fact remains that our goals in the region are similar.’ ‘Pakistan wants a stable Afghanistan and Pakistan wants to eliminate terrorism from the region. Pakistanis want to move forward as a progressive and democratic nation.’ Islamabad, he said, wants to resolve issues with its neighbours but argued that Pakistan would not be told by others whether its security concerns emanate from the eastern border or from terrorism on the western border. ‘We will define our security concerns ourselves.’

He said Pakistani soldiers, intelligence personnel, politicians and people are jointly fighting the menace of terrorism, which must be addressed with a multidimensional approach having economic, social and political components. The ambassador said the US and Pakistan should continue a process of overcoming trust deficit of the last three decades that began with Secretary of State Hillary Clintons three-day visit to Pakistan last month. He lauded the role of Pakistani artists, musicians, poets, writers and particularly the entire team of the production for reflecting in their work the nation’s struggle against extremism. Writer Asghar Nadeem Syed, Director Kashif Nisar, artistes Ayesha Khan and Noman Ejaz introduced some aspects and theme of the play to the audience comprising American South Asian affairs experts and journalists.

Source:http://www.onepakistan.com/news/national/24443-World-must-recognise-Pakistans-anti-terror-fight.html

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