A top leader of Pakistan has confessed whether the army of his country had only 30 to 45 seconds to decide whether the BrahMos cruise missile fired by India during Operation Sindoor could have nuclear weapons. Rana Sanaullah, advisor to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, also said that the threat of nuclear war was high during the Indo-Pakistan struggle. The operation began after terrorists associated with Pakistan killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
Sanaullah told a Pakistani news channel, “When India fired the BrahMos missile on Noor Khan airbase, the Pakistan Army had only 30-45 seconds to analyze whether the upcoming missile could have a nuclear weapon or not. It was a dangerous situation to take any decision on it in just 30 seconds.”
Nur Khan is a major airbase of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Chaklala, Rawalpindi.
He said, “I am not saying that they did well by not using nuclear weapons, but at the same time people on this side may have misunderstood it, due to which the first nuclear weapon was fired, which could lead to the global nuclear war.”
India attacked several Pakistani air bases during ‘Operation Sindoor’, which damaged the runways, hangers and buildings and Pakistan suffered a major setback. Satellite photographs showed that Sargodha, Noor Khan (Chaklala), Bholari, Jackbabad, Sukkur and Rahim Yar Khan had suffered heavy losses.
This was not the first time India attacked Noor Khan. During the 1971 war, 20 squadrons of the Indian Air Force (IAF) targeted the air base with their hawkers.
The Indian Army destroyed several camps of terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) and Hizbul Mujahideen during ‘Operation Sindoor’ and killed more than 100 terrorists.
Following India’s night, the Pakistani Army fired drones and missiles in the western areas of India, which were successfully stopped. After this, India attacked selected military bases in the Pakistani region.
After four days of drone and missile attacks from across the border, the two countries reached the ceasefire agreement to stop military action with immediate effect.