Pakistan willing to use nuclear weapons to ensure its survival if necessary

[war&peace]

Which country isn't willing to use nuclear weapons as a last resort?

All the countries except nine nuclear powers

 

[Trango Towers]

You attacked Kashmir, expecting a resistance in Kashmir by IA limited to J&K.

But we decide to attack Lahore. And push back in J&K.

How was your tea at Lahore gymkhana?

 

[Chhatrapati]

How was your tea at Lahore gymkhana?

Don't ask. You really need to have Golden flowery leaf instead of grade 4 Red dust.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Our survival does not need nuclear weapons, I don't get why these politicians keep going about their usual nuclear rants.

 

[MultaniGuy]

Well who wouldn't use nuclear weapons to ensure survival.

That is the point of nuclear weapons. Nobody should get angry.

 

[El Sidd]

Yaaaay

Hum bomb maarenge.

Shukar hai yr jaan chot jaegi.

Pakistan will exercise first use part of its deterrence policy.

After having already called India a hypocritical mother of all terrorism which incidentally is also the rape capital of the world.

Pakistan Zindabad.

Allah Akbar

Red button... Dhoooooooosshhh

People would wonder if it was pointy or was it painted pink to support the breast cancer awareness. Holy shit that is one weird sentence.

 

[Ryuzaki]

But what if India destroys Pak nuclear sites and Pak is left with only a handful of tactical nukes?What good will it be?

 

[Pseudonym]

But what if India destroys Pak nuclear sites and Pak is left with only a handful of tactical nukes?What good will it be?

Stories.. I can make em too:

What if ISI pigeons planted a tactical nuke up modi's lungi and detonated that?

 

[Thorough Pro]

and Indian nukes are to please their first lady.......

(Photo: Reuters, 247Sports)



Pakistan is ready to use nuclear weapons against India, a senior Pakistani official confirmed on Monday.

Appearing on the Pakistani television channel “Geo,” Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that [3] Islamabad is willing to use nuclear weapons to ensure its survival.

“We should pray that such an option never arises, but if we need to use them (nuclear weapons) for our survival we will,” Asif said, according to Geo’s website. His remark was widely reported by Indian media outlets.

Asif went on to accuse India of supporting anti-Pakistani terrorist groups in a proxy war against Islamabad. “Fuelling terrorism directly or indirectly is India’s proxy war in Pakistan,” Asif said. He singled out Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani Taliban, and Baloch separatists as two of the groups that India is allegedly supporting.

Asif’s statement about Pakistan’s willingness to use nuclear weapons is in line with Islamabad's long-standing nuclear doctrine. In contrast to India and China, which both maintain no first use nuclear doctrines, Pakistan has always maintained that it could resort to nuclear weapons to blunt a conventional attack from India.

Nor is Asif the first high-level Pakistani official to threaten to use nuclear weapons. Former President Pervez Musharraf issued a similar threat [4] (albeit, after he left office), when he stated: “We do not want to use nuclear capability but if our existence comes under threat, who do we have these nuclear weapons for?”

More tellingly, in an interview back in 2002, Lt. Gen. Khalid Kidwai, the first head of the Strategic Plans Division (SPD), which is responsible for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, outlined four scenarios where Pakistan would consider using nuclear weapons against India:

1. If India conquers a large part of Pakistan;
2. If India destroys large parts of Pakistan’s army or air force;
3. If India tries to strangle Pakistan economically;
4. If India tries to destabilizing Pakistan politically, including by creating large scale internal subversion.

Notably, in his interview this week, Asif seems to suggest that India is doing the fourth scenario by supporting terrorist groups inside Pakistan.

Pakistan has backed up its rhetoric by creating an operational nuclear force capable of making good on its threats. For example, when Indian officials began discussing a Cold Start doctrine—in which Indian forces would make quick and limited incursions into Pakistan in response to Islamabad-supported terrorist attacks in India—Pakistan began developing tactical nuclear weapons to thwart such attacks.

In 2011, Pakistan first tested its Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile [5], which it referred to as a “Short Range Surface to Surface Multi Tube Ballistic Missile.” The statement announcing the test elaborated: “NASR, with a range of 60 km, carries nuclear warheads of appropriate yield with high accuracy, shoot and scoot attributes. This quick response system addresses the need to deter evolving threats.”

It went on to add that “the test was a very important milestone in consolidating Pakistan’s strategic deterrence capability at all levels of the threat spectrum.”

It has continued to test the Nasr missile in the years since, including using firing it in four missile salvos using a “state-of-the-art multi-tube launcher.”

Earlier this year, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, confirmed that Pakistan is continuing to build up a tactical nuclear weapons force. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, Stewart said: “We anticipate that Pakistan will continue [its] development of new delivery systems, including cruise missiles and close-range ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapons to augment its existing ballistic missiles.”

https://scout.com/military/warrior/...e-Nuclear-WeaponsShould-India-Worry-109876924

 

[NirmalKrish]

(Photo: Reuters, 247Sports)



Pakistan is ready to use nuclear weapons against India, a senior Pakistani official confirmed on Monday.

Appearing on the Pakistani television channel “Geo,” Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that [3] Islamabad is willing to use nuclear weapons to ensure its survival.

“We should pray that such an option never arises, but if we need to use them (nuclear weapons) for our survival we will,” Asif said, according to Geo’s website. His remark was widely reported by Indian media outlets.

Asif went on to accuse India of supporting anti-Pakistani terrorist groups in a proxy war against Islamabad. “Fuelling terrorism directly or indirectly is India’s proxy war in Pakistan,” Asif said. He singled out Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani Taliban, and Baloch separatists as two of the groups that India is allegedly supporting.

Asif’s statement about Pakistan’s willingness to use nuclear weapons is in line with Islamabad's long-standing nuclear doctrine. In contrast to India and China, which both maintain no first use nuclear doctrines, Pakistan has always maintained that it could resort to nuclear weapons to blunt a conventional attack from India.

Nor is Asif the first high-level Pakistani official to threaten to use nuclear weapons. Former President Pervez Musharraf issued a similar threat [4] (albeit, after he left office), when he stated: “We do not want to use nuclear capability but if our existence comes under threat, who do we have these nuclear weapons for?”

More tellingly, in an interview back in 2002, Lt. Gen. Khalid Kidwai, the first head of the Strategic Plans Division (SPD), which is responsible for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, outlined four scenarios where Pakistan would consider using nuclear weapons against India:

1. If India conquers a large part of Pakistan;
2. If India destroys large parts of Pakistan’s army or air force;
3. If India tries to strangle Pakistan economically;
4. If India tries to destabilizing Pakistan politically, including by creating large scale internal subversion.

Notably, in his interview this week, Asif seems to suggest that India is doing the fourth scenario by supporting terrorist groups inside Pakistan.

Pakistan has backed up its rhetoric by creating an operational nuclear force capable of making good on its threats. For example, when Indian officials began discussing a Cold Start doctrine—in which Indian forces would make quick and limited incursions into Pakistan in response to Islamabad-supported terrorist attacks in India—Pakistan began developing tactical nuclear weapons to thwart such attacks.

In 2011, Pakistan first tested its Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile [5], which it referred to as a “Short Range Surface to Surface Multi Tube Ballistic Missile.” The statement announcing the test elaborated: “NASR, with a range of 60 km, carries nuclear warheads of appropriate yield with high accuracy, shoot and scoot attributes. This quick response system addresses the need to deter evolving threats.”

It went on to add that “the test was a very important milestone in consolidating Pakistan’s strategic deterrence capability at all levels of the threat spectrum.”

It has continued to test the Nasr missile in the years since, including using firing it in four missile salvos using a “state-of-the-art multi-tube launcher.”

Earlier this year, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, confirmed that Pakistan is continuing to build up a tactical nuclear weapons force. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, Stewart said: “We anticipate that Pakistan will continue [its] development of new delivery systems, including cruise missiles and close-range ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapons to augment its existing ballistic missiles.”

https://scout.com/military/warrior/...e-Nuclear-WeaponsShould-India-Worry-109876924

 

[Maxpane]

every country would do the same

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

What was that then in 65?

we will make sure its dead for a dead. no Indian survival.

 

[illusion8]

How will pakistan survive if it uses nukes?

 

[Rahil khan]

How will pakistan survive if it uses nukes?

Question is...howz humanity gonna survive in most densely populated region of the world..??..Nuclear radiation knows no boundary. Just show you a glimpse....planet earth will lose 50% of crop production ability....just imagine the scale of devastating impact on human race.

 

[American Pakistani]

In an event of any foreign attack where Pakistan's survival is at stakes, Pakistan should make sure it takes india down with itself.