Taliban storm Pak air base that stores nuke warheads

Less than 48 hours after the US defence secretary reiterated that Washington's biggest fear was that Pakistan's nuclear weapons would fall into the hands of terrorists, heavily-armed Taliban fighters stormed a high-security airbase, where some of the country's 100 nuclear warheads are believed to be stored, near Islamabad on Thursday. A five-hour gunfight left nine attackers and a soldier dead and the base commander among the many wounded.

Read Full Story>>