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Pakistan summons its top nuclear body

May 10, 2025

10 May, Kathmandu – Pakistan said it called a meeting on Saturday of the top body that oversees its nuclear arsenal after it launched a military operation against India early in the morning, targeting multiple bases including a missile storage site in northern India.

The Indian army said after the attacks that Pakistan was continuing its “blatant escalation” with drone strikes and using other munitions along India’s western border, and that its “enemy designs” would be thwarted.

Pakistan’s military also said the prime minister had called a meeting of the National Command Authority, a top body of civilian and military officials that oversees decisions on its nuclear arsenal.

Analysts and diplomats have long feared that conflict between the arch-rivals could escalate into the use of nuclear weapons, in one of the world’s most dangerous and most populated nuclear flashpoint regions.
Pakistan’s planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said the escalation was a test for the international community.
“We would hate to see that (nuclear) threshold being breached,” he said.
The meeting of the National Command Authority signalled an alarming escalation, analysts said.
– REUTERS

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