Islamabad, May 10 -- On Saturday Morning, Pakistani media reported that the Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif had called for the meeting of the National Command authority which is responsible for making the operational decisions on Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

A few hours later, the Pakistan top brass retracted under pressure. Khwaja Asif the Defence minister insisted that no meeting of the National Command Authority has been called.

Interestingly, the backtrack happened after US Secretary of state had telephone calls with Pakistan Army Chief Asim Muneer and the Pakistan Deputy PM and FM Ishaq Dar. Rubio also spoke to India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

To keep their hands clean, Asif went one step further telling Geo News that th...