In
1997 Indian military was stronger than Pakistan and India was far better in
traditional weapons like machine guns and tanks tops there was a huge difference
between Pakistan and India, and it was increasing day by day. But now India was
working on mesial technology, and they were successful there as well. So, In
response to this now Pakistan had to move towards nontraditional weapons and
for this Pakistan was preparing for Bhutto’s era. In this race of getting more
powerful weapons, both countries ended up with atomic bombs (nuclear weapons). It
was India who conducted nuclear dimension in the region, not Pakistan and Pakistan
did not have any plan to test nuclear weapons because Pakistan always supported the NPT (treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons).
On
11 May 1998 former foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad along with Pm Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif were in Kazakhstan and they came back after lunch from there Shamshad Ahmad received a call from staff officers and was informed that India
had conducted its nuclear test. After it was told to Pm Pakistan, he gave
permission to work on taking safety measures and Shamshad Ahmad called COAS Gen
Jahangir Karamat. Soon after this, a cabinet was set and it was suggested that we
should answer India’s nuclear tests some of them suggested just keeping
quiet and not answering to them, and 17 days passed during this time. The Prime minister
was not in favor of nuclear tests and 95% of his cabinet members were also
totally against nuclear tests. They feared that if we could conduct nuclear
tests America would not spare Pakistan. And PM used to say don’t do it we would
get killed. During this time Shamshad Ahmed went to China to tell them that we
have decided to conduct nuclear tests. And told China that after conducting
this we may face some issues from America so we believe China will support us China said we will support you in whatever ways we can. On the nights of 27
and 28, May 1998 news came through intelligence ISI that India and Israel are
planning to attack a nuclear installation in Pakistan after verifying it
throughout the world Pakistan made calls to India China America, and the UN and
talked about this that we have this news from ISI. Pakistan got answers from
everywhere that there is no such plan from India and Pakistan was satisfied that
there were no more threads.
On the 13th and 14th may a delegation from America was supposed to come but Shamshad Ahmad told
them that I am not in a position of receiving the delegation after a few days a
delegation came and had many meetings with the pm and foreign minister but Pakistan
was clear and Shamshad Ahmed said that “ there is no price of independence and
survive and Pakistan formally conducted a series of nuclear tests on 28th
and 30th May 1998 at Chagai Baluchistan and became the 7th
nuclear power in the world.
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