{"id":528925,"date":"2025-05-12T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528820"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:45:36","slug":"indiapakistan-tensions-islamabad-raises-nuclear-threat-amid-missile-strike-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/indiapakistan-tensions-islamabad-raises-nuclear-threat-amid-missile-strike-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2013Pakistan tensions: Islamabad raises nuclear threat amid missile strike allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistani Prime Minister <strong>Shehbaz Sharif<\/strong> convened an emergency meeting of the <strong>National Command Authority (NCA)<\/strong> on Saturday to assess potential responses involving the country&#8217;s <strong>nuclear and ballistic arsenal<\/strong>, amid heightened tensions with India, according to state television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCA\u2014Pakistan&#8217;s highest strategic body, chaired by the Prime Minister\u2014is responsible for the <strong>control, oversight, and doctrinal planning<\/strong> of the country&#8217;s nuclear forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move follows what Islamabad has called an act of \u201cIndian aggression.\u201d Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister <strong>Ishaq Dar<\/strong> accused New Delhi of crossing a \u201cred line\u201d by carrying out <strong>missile strikes on Pakistani air bases<\/strong> earlier that morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPakistan\u2019s patience has reached its limit,\u201d Dar told reporters, insisting that the country has \u201cno choice but to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Warning of a potential <strong>escalation<\/strong>, Dar stated that <strong>nuclear retaliation could not be ruled out<\/strong> if India continued its offensive strategy. He added that the NCA was taking the necessary steps to prepare for <strong>all possible scenarios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest developments mark one of the most serious flashpoints between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened an emergency meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) on Saturday to assess potential responses involving the country&#8217;s nuclear and ballistic arsenal, amid heightened tensions with India, according to state television. The NCA\u2014Pakistan&#8217;s highest strategic body, chaired by the Prime Minister\u2014is responsible for the control, oversight, and doctrinal planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":528957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528925"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528925"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}