The ‘Islamic Bomb’: Why Pakistan’s Nuclear Power Haunts Israel and Reassures the Muslim World
Shehbaz Sharif said the 1998 tests restored South Asia’s strategic balance and showed Pakistan would not compromise on defence or sovereignty.
- Today, Thursday, Pakistan observes Youm-i-Takbeer, marking the 28th anniversary of the 1998 nuclear tests in Chagai, Balochistan that established the nation as the seventh nuclear power.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari praised former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif's 1998 decision to proceed despite international pressure, economic sanctions, and global threats to restore strategic balance in South Asia.
- Paying tribute, Shehbaz honored the "visionary leadership of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto," Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, stating their contributions alongside the Armed Forces made Pakistan's defence impregnable.
- Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, with naval and air chiefs Admiral Naveed Ashraf and Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar, reaffirmed resolve to defend the motherland, terming strategic capability a "sacred national trust."
- Authorities warned against proxy networks "Fitna al-Khawarij and Fitna al-Hindustan," emphasizing that continued security operations will eradicate these threats while maintaining credible deterrence against hostile elements in the region.
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The ‘Islamic Bomb’: Why Pakistan’s nuclear power haunts Israel and reassures the Muslim world
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Pakistan’s nuclear tests, conducted on May 28, 1998, did more than counter India — they shattered the myth of permanent Muslim weakness, forcing hostile powers to reckon with a sovereign Muslim state armed with ultimate deterrence, writes Muhammad Siddeeq. Every year on May 28, Pakistan marks Youm-e-Takbeer, the anniversary of the 1998 Chagai nuclear […]
Chagai’s Nuclear Curse: Balochistan still battles cancer 28 years after Pakistan conducted nuclear tests
All over Pakistan, functions were organised on May 28 extolling the virtues of nuclear tests conducted on May 28, 1998. These tests were conducted in Chagai hills of Balochistan where new cancer cases among locals is an everyday affair. This has been happening ever since the conduct of five nuclear tests decades ago, as the Federal and the state government ignore the plight of the locals, refusing to own up that the nuclear radiation has caused …
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