India says Pakistan nuclear arsenal should be under UN surveillance
- India launched air strikes on May 7 against terrorist camps in Pakistan after an April attack killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir.
- The strikes followed heightened militant operations in Kashmir, which intensified after India revoked the region's limited autonomy in 2019.
- During the ensuing conflict, India and Pakistan exchanged missile and artillery fire for four days, resulting in nearly 70 deaths including civilians before a ceasefire was brokered.
- Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh called for Pakistan's nuclear arsenal to be placed under IAEA supervision, while Pakistan accused India of having a nuclear material black market and rejected provocative Indian statements.
- These nuclear accusations followed the most serious military confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in two decades, raising global fears of escalation but ending with international calls for restraint.
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The concept of red lines shot into prominence in the Indian subcontinent in 2002, in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001. In a conversation with two Italian physicists that year, General Khalid Kidwai, the head of Pakistan’s Strategic Forces Division, identified four red lines that could trigger Pakistan to use nuclear weapons:India captures a large part of Pakistan’s territory (spatial threshold).…
Pakistan slams Indian defence minister’s remarks on nuclear arsenal
Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned remarks made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh regarding oversight of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, calling them "irresponsible and misleading." The FO statement came after Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons should be placed under the surveillance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog. Responding to the stateme…

India and Pakistan trade accusations of nuclear arsenal mismanagement
India and Pakistan accused each other Thursday of failing to control their nuclear weapons, calling on the world to monitor their neighbour's arsenal just days after their most serious military confrontation in two decades.
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