Pakistan’s U-turn: No Meeting Of Body Overseeing Nuclear Arsenal, Says Defence Minister

Pakistan Defence Minister said that location has been nary gathering of nan apical subject and civilian assemblage that oversees nan atomic arsenal. Khawaja Asif said nan action of atomic arms should not moreover beryllium discussed astatine nan moment. This comes aft a study stated that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened a gathering of nan National Command Authority that oversees nan country’s atomic arsenal. 

"This point that you person spoken astir (nuclear option) is present, but let's not talk astir it - we should dainty it arsenic a very distant possibility, we shouldn't moreover talk it successful nan contiguous context. Before we get to that point, I deliberation temperatures will travel down. No gathering has happened of nan National Command Authority, nor is immoderate specified gathering scheduled,” Asif told ARY TV. 

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, meanwhile, said if India stops present past "we will see stopping here".

An earlier study by Reuters stated that Shehbaz Sharif convened a gathering of nan National Command Authority aft India's early greeting strikes connected 3 Pakistani aerial bases: Nur Khan successful Rawalpindi, Murid successful Chakwal, and Rafiqui successful Jhang. The strikes were a consequence to caller cross-border aggression by Pakistan, which launched hundreds of drones targeting cardinal Indian cities and subject installations complete nan past 2 days.

The Nur Khan airbase, located conscionable 10 km from Islamabad, is 1 of Pakistan's astir delicate subject sites. Formerly known arsenic Chaklala, it hosts VIP carrier planes, aggregate aerial squadrons, and nan PAF College Chaklala.

The Indian Army reported that Pakistan's escalation pinch drone strikes and different munitions continued on India's occidental borders. 

Published on: May 10, 2025 3:16 PM IST