...Imran Khan convenes meeting of Pakistan's apex nuclear body after Balakot air strikes

FirstPost ^ | 02/27/2019

[BenLurkin]

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has called for a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) in the aftermath of India's pre-emptive, non-military air strikes at terror camps in Balakot in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

This is the second high-level meeting that Imran has called for in the wake of the Indian Air Force's operation. On Tuesday, he had convened an emergency review meeting of top defence and foreign ministry officials.

However, the meeting with the NCA stands out as the first significant reaction by Pakistan to India's air strikes as the NCA oversees not only Pakistan's strategic components but also its nuclear arsenal. Spokesperson of the Pakistan Armed Forces Major General Asif Ghafoor said as much at a press conference on Tuesday.

In 2019, the Pakistani National Assembly approved the National Command Authority (NCA) Bill, 2009, legally establishing the NCA as a civilian-led body in charge of the country's nuclear assets.

The NCA has had its share of controversy, with allegations of leaks of nuclear technology surfacing in 2004. Abdul Qadeer Khan, known as "the father of the nuclear bomb", was accused of selling the country's nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. In the years to come, Pakistan has confirmed that Abdul had, indeed, sold nuclear secrets but has maintained that the government was not in the know about this. Abdul, meanwhile, has gone back and forth on several confessions.

When it comes to relations between India and Pakistan, the nuclear strength of the two countries has often been raked up but has never been on the forefront of tensions. The NCA has repeatedly assured world watchdogs that it would prevent a nuclear showdown and manage the country's assets carefully.

[Truthoverpower]

I don’t really believe Pakistan really actually has nukes

I think it’s all bluster and BS

Now India for sure they have a bunch a Nukes

Bottom line is neither of these they’re gonna nuke each other because they would screw up their own people

[CondorFlight]

The antipathy between the countries is real. And events can escalate beyond the control of the leaders. Terror attacks, for example, can force the hand of governments, leading to retaliation, and then counter-retaliation, and so on.

The Pak-India border is a powderkeg.

[gaijin]

We got nukes after we got through the 100 Years War, the Holy Reformation, the Enlightenment and all manner of other cr*p. It was swords and lances, back then.

In terms of learning to get along with people different from us, the Middle East is where we were in 1100 AD, basically.

Imagine being in, say, 1250 AD, then having a NUKE handed to you.

What would have happened, back then..?

Maybe the Old World is about to show us..?

[aces]

their own people are already being screwed, thats what muslims do