India, July 3 -- Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advisor, Rana Sanaullah, recently admitted that Islamabad had only 30 to 45 seconds to assess whether the BrahMos cruise missile fired by India during Operation Sindoor and headed toward the Nur Khan Airbase carried a nuclear warhead.

Sanaullah said that even the slightest misunderstanding or misjudgment in those critical seconds could have triggered a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.

The Indian armed forces on May 7 launched Operation Sindoor against the terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a military operation carried out in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack that killed 26 people, mostly civilians.

Speaking to a Pakistan...