India, Oct. 28 -- During the escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution removing the special powers of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan renewed its nuclear sabre-rattling. Prime Minister Imran Khan cautioned that in a war when the existence of Pakistan would be in danger, his government was bound to use nuclear weapons to defend the country.
This of course was usual, as Pakistan has not undertaken that she would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in the case of a war, unlike India. For India, this was required in Prime Minister Vajpayee's time to assuage the feelings of the world when international community was outraged on India conducting a declared nuclear te...